Memory Function
What’s the magic trick of turning info into code so machines can understand it?
Encoding!!
Who was the scientist that tried to find the "engram" by making brain lesions in rats to study memory?
Karl Lashley!
What type of amnesia causes people to forget new information after an injury but allows them to remember things from before the injury?
Anterograde amnesia
What memory-boosting strategy involves repeating information over and over to move it from short-term to long-term memory, like memorizing multiplication tables?
Rehearsal!
If you give me 3 cupcakes and I eat them, and Bailey gives me 7 cupcakes and I eat them, and Benji comes and steals 2 cupcakes, and I eat 5 cupcakes I brought, then what do I have?
Diabetes
What type of memory holds information for about 20-30 seconds, like a phone number you just heard?
Short-term memory!!!
When rats kept remembering the maze despite brain damage, which mind-blowing theory did Karl Lashley come up with?
The equipotentiality hypothesis!
What type of amnesia causes people to lose memories of events that happened before an injury, leaving them unable to recognize their own past?
Retrograde amnesia!
What memory technique involves linking new information to what you already know and repeating it, like remembering an area code by associating it with a person from that place
Mnemonic device!
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Becawwwwse
What is the name of the process where activating one memory makes it easier to recall related memories in your brain's semantic network?
Spreading activation!
Which brain area handles your "I remember that!" memories, while the cerebellum steps in to help you master skills like blinking when air hits your eyes
The hippocampus for explicit memories, and the cerebellum for implicit memories!
What error happens when you mix up the source of a memory, like remembering watching a movie with someone you actually saw it with later?
Misattribution!
What memory strategy involves breaking down long pieces of information into smaller, easier-to-remember groups, like turning a phone number into chunks (520-555-0467)?
Chunking!
As mentioned in our psychology reaction by Richard Cornell, what is the scientifically accurate answer for the addition of nine and ten and what value does it equate to. (Hint) acess your pre frontal cortex for this!
21 *shots fired* *air horns*
What are 2 types of Long-term memory?
explicit and implicit
What type of memory allows you to remember exactly where you were and how you heard about a major event, like 9/11 or a life-changing personal moment?
Flashbulb memory!
What type of interference happens when old memories mess with your ability to remember new info, like accidentally giving your old phone number instead of the new one?
Proactive interference!
Which memory strategy involves reviewing material across time in short sessions, instead of cramming, to help with memory consolidation?
Distributed practice!
Percentage wise: how much does crime increase during a full moon?
IT DOESNT YOU GOT FINESSED AHAHAHAH! ITS CALLED ILLUSIONARY CORRELATION HAHAHAHAH!
Can you name 3 ways how we retrieve information?
Recall, Recognition, and Relearning!!
Which brain structure helps store emotional memories, like fear, and boosts memory when something emotionally intense happens?
The amygdala
What memory error happens when you forget something because your attention is elsewhere, like walking into a room and forgetting why you went in?
Absentmindedness!
What is the memory strategy called when you relate new information to something personally meaningful to you, such as remembering the hippocampus by imagining a hippopotamus with excellent memory?
The self-reference effect!
What type of learning style is the most popular style?
NOTHING. ERRRRRR WRONG IDIOT SANDWICH!! JOJO HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING!!