Unless our __________ meaningfully encodes or rehearses information, it quickly disappears from short-term memory.
What is working memory?
100
Mnemonic devices and priming are examples of this.
What is are retrieval cues?
100
One of the sins of forgetting besides transience and blocking is this.
What is absent-mindedness?
100
The letters Y, M, O, M, R, E are presented. Jill remembers them by rearranging them to spell the word “MEMORY.” This provides an illustration of
What is chunking?
200
We can boost our memory through this, otherwise known as conscious repetition.
What is rehearsal.
200
Short term memory can story approximately ______ bits of information.
What is 7?
200
This experience happens when one is in a context similar to one that has been experienced before.
What is deja vu?
200
This scientist said the course of forgetting is initially rapid, but then it levels off.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
200
Peterson and Peterson demonstrated that unrehearsed short-term memories for three consonants almost completely decay in as short a time as
What is 12 seconds?
300
We retain information better when rehearsal is distributed over time. This is called what?
What is the spacing effect.
300
What part of the brain is stimulated during emotional events, and thus helps memory storage?
What is the amygdala?
300
This is the tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items
What is serial position effect?
300
This happens when one cannot remember one's old locker combination after learning a new one.
What is retroactive interference?
300
This happens when we retain the memory of an event but not the context in which we acquired it.
What is source amnesia?
400
Research by Kandel and Schwartz on sea slugs indicates that memory formation is associated with the
What are release of certain neurotransmitters?
400
Explicit memories are stored in this part of the brain.
What is the hippocampus?
400
Getting someone to say the word "sleep" was in a list of related words when in reality it was not is an example of this concept.
What is priming?
400
By presenting research participants with three rows of three letters each for only a fraction of a second, Sperling demonstrated that people have ________ memory.
What is iconic memory?
400
We cannot reliably remember events prior to this age.
What is 3 years old.
500
Attaching meaning to something one wants to remember is called what?
What is semantic encoding?
500
Visually associating five items needed from the grocery store with mental images of a bun, a shoe, a tree, a door, and a hive best illustrates the use of
What is the peg-word system?
500
Feeding someone incorrect facts about an event can cause that person to "remember" something that in fact did not happen. This is called the ______________ effect.
What is misinformation?
500
This scientist theorized that people repress painful memories to preserve their self-concept.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
500
This is critical for the brain's ability to organize and consolidate information into long-term memory.