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The set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time.
What is memory?
The type of memories do we consciously try to remember, recall, and report?
What are explicit?
This is the act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness.
What is retrieval?
If I am looking at a snake and processing the fear caused by the snake, what part of my brain am I using?
What is the amygdala?
The three processes used to form memory are ___, ____, and ____.
What are encode, store, retrieve?
Unconscious memories are known as _____ memories.
What is implicit?
When you take a multiple-choice test, you are relying on ________, because you are comparing the information in front of you to that which is already stored in your long-term memory.
What is recognition?
This area of the brain is associated with normal recognition/spatial/new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
Short term memory last about __ to __ seconds.
What is 15-30 seconds?
I am trying to learn the names of all 50 states. Because I am actively and consciously remembering and recalling this information, it is considered ________ memory.
What is explicit?
Kenethia enjoys knitting. When she begins college, she has less time for knitting and finally stops altogether. After graduation, she wants to knit again, so she practices with her needles until she is good at it again. This is an example of ________, a means of retrieving information out of your long-term memory storage system.
What is relearning?
Recent research conducted by Cowan (2010) has found that the capacity of working memory is this many units of information.
What is 4 plus or minus 1?
This memory related to words/concepts/language.
What is semantic memory?
This type of memory relates to information about events we have personally experienced.
What is episodic memory?
In order to remember his lines for the play, Guy repeats his lines over and over again. This process is called ________.
What is rehearsal?
Ebbinghaus found that about one day after you learn new material, you will only remember ____ percent of it if you have not reviewed it a second time.
What is 30%?
Elaine wakes up in the hospital with a head injury. She gets to know her doctors and nurses over time, but it soon becomes clear that she has no memories from before she woke up in the hospital. Elaine has ________ amnesia.
What is retrograde?
How is an explicit memory different from an implicit memory?
Explicit memories are memories we consciously try to remember and recall, while implicit memories are those that are not part of our consciousness.
Dozens of people witness a purse snatching. One of the eyewitnesses loudly yells “the man with the blue shirt did it.” Later, when questioned by police, several other eyewitnesses remember the purse snatcher wearing a blue shirt, even though the purse snatcher was a woman in flowered dress. This is an example of ________, or the effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories.
What is suggestibility?
From a cognitive psychology perspective, why is getting plenty of sleep the night before an exam important?
It allows for consolidation of studied material in long-term memory.