Memory Process
The two different types of retrieval.
What are recall and recognition?
The number of items one can store in short term (working) memory.
What is 7 plus or minus 2?
Devices used to improve memory.
What are mnemonic devices?
Memory loss due to biological or psychological factors.
What is (organic) amnesia.
The colour of the third slide of the PowerPoint.
The process of transferring information from one storage system to another.
What is encoding?
Selective attention occurs within this memory storage system.
What is sensory memory?
The name given to the strategy where similar information is grouped together.
What is chunking?
The two factors that influence the rate at which we forget.
What are meaningfulness and pre-existing associations.
The number I asked you to remember at the start of the topic.
What is 564-4464?
The capacity and duration of sensory memory.
What are a Large Capacity and Short Duration?
The two ways memory can be lost from the short term (working) memory.
What are:
New information replacing old information
and
Decay?
The name given to the strategy where information is linked together as a story.
What is narrative chaining?
The name of the man we watched with anterograde amnesia.
Who is Clive Wearing?
Mr Munday's favourite word.
What is zest?
The name given to the effect where false information has been used to fill in missing details of a memory.
What is the misinformation effect?
The two sub-systems of declarative memory.
What are episodic and semantic memory?
This form of rehearsal is more effective due to making connections between and within existing information in the memory system.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
New information is interfering with the ability to recall old information.
What is retroactive interference?
The items Mr Munday removed during our lesson on sensory memory.
What are glasses, lanyard, badge, watch.
The model which involves transferring information from one memory store to the other.
What is the Information Processing Model?
The name of the occurrence when we remember the beginning and end of a list but not the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
This is what the acrostic 'My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas' stands for.
What is Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto?
Two biological factors that occur as a result of Alzheimer's disease.
What are neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques.
This land based animal finds it physically impossible to look up into the sky.
What is a pig?