Vocab 1
the memory process that locates stored information and returns it to consciousness
What is retrieval?
The skills needed to ride a bicycle are stored as this type of memory
What is procedural memory?
Ryan can remember quite vividly the first time his dad took him out to learn how to ride a bike, because he didn’t use training wheels and took a nasty spill, scraping his knee badly. This would best be described as this type of memory.
What is an episodic memory?
This type of retrieval process is demonstrated by a multiple-choice question.
What is recognition?
Facts learned in classes at school become part of this type of memory.
What are generic memories?
The ability to recall the last items in a series
What is recency effect?
Remembering what the word summer means requires this type of memory, while remembering what you did on July 4th, 1996, requires this type of memory.
What are semantic and episodic memory?
Jessica is trying to remember a list of nouns like table, camera, and gun. One way she does this is by repeatedly thinking about how useful each item would be if she were on vacation. Jessica is employing this type of rehearsal.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
Robert was in an auto accident and now has difficulty remembering anything new. He can remember everything prior to his accident, but nothing since it. His doctors suspect that this part of his brain has been damaged
What is the hippocampus?
Computers and people both handle information using the processes of these three steps.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
Memory in which people recall events in great detail
What is a flashbulb memory?
This type of retrieval process is demonstrated by a multiple-choice question.
What is recognition?
You are driving down the street when you see a billboard displaying a phone number for a service you need. You keep repeating the number over and over so you won’t forget it until you can pull over and put it in your phone. You do this to prevent this process from causing you to forget the number.
What is decay?
Chunking, mnemonics, and rehearsal are all ways of doing this to information.
What is encoding?
The average person can hold in short-term memory a list of this many items.
What is seven items?
Method used to increase the amount of information one can hold in short-term memory
What is chunking?
The ability to recall the first items in a series
what is primacy effect?
Studying for a test in the same room in which it will be held may result in a better grade because of this type of memory
What is context-dependent memory?
Cameron was trying to learn the new plays that his new basketball coach had devised for the team. Unfortunately, Cameron found he was having trouble learning the new plays because he kept confusing them with the plays he had learned with his old coach last season. Cameron is experiencing this type of interference.
What is proactive interference?
In order to remember information for a long period of time, facts must be transferred from this type of memory to this type of memory
What are short-term memory and long-term memory?
Sad feelings that trigger memories of another sad time are
what is state-dependent memory?
Burt B. was in an accident that damaged his brain. Now he has lost his memory for all events occurring after his accident. Burt’s accident has resulted in this type of amnesia
What is anterograde amnesia?
ROY G BIV is an example of this type of memory aid used to remember the order of colors in the color spectrum.
What is a mnemonic?
Information in short-term memory typically lasts for this duration
What is 15-20 seconds?
Any number given in between will be allotted.