Memory 2.3
What is the type of processing that requires attention and conscious effort?
What is effortful processing
Devon is trying to memorize the number sequence 149217761812. To make it easier, she breaks it into 1492, 1776, 1812, which are all important historical years. This memory strategy she is using is called…
What is Chunking
implicit
retention of learned skill or conditioned association; unconscious; emotional and procedural
What is primining?
the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response
evolutionary perspective?
forgetting may be an adaptation; why carry it around if not useful for survival
Justin is trying to remember a new phone number. He keeps repeating it silently to himself over and over until he can write it down. This part of his working memory, which temporarily stores and rehearses verbal information, is called..
What is a Phonological Loop
what is the term that describes out tendency to recall the last and first items in a list.
What is Serial Position effect
What does explicit mean
facts and experiences; conscious; semantic and episodic
encoding specificity principle
the idea that cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping us recall it
biological perspective?
neural pathways can change or be disconnected (plasicity)
What are the three levels of processing?
What is Structural, Phonemic, and Semantic
what is the type of processing that is based on the meaning of words and tends to yield the best retention. This encodes semantically.
What is deep processing
what is semantic memory?
memory of general knowledge and facts
context dependent memory
The theory that information learned in a particular situation or place is better remembered when in that same situation or place.
Psychodynamic perspective?
forgetting is one part of our mind trying to protect the other parts from past trauma (unconscious repression)
What is a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli?
What is Iconic Memory
Ethan is learning to read music. To remember the notes on the lines of the treble clef, he sings “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge” each time he sees a staff. Using a catchy phrase or song to help him remember information is an example of…
What is mnemonic devices
What is episodic memory?
Autobiographical memory of an event or experience (who, what, where)
state-dependent memory
the phenomenon through which memory retrieval is most efficient when an individual is in the same state of consciousness as they were when the memory was formed-used in text with example of alcohol-alcohol is not a mood-thus the slight difference between state dependent and mood congruent memory definitions
social perspective?
we forget because we are not in the social situation to retrieve
what is the component of working memory where we create mental images to remember visual info?
What is Visuospatial Sketchpad
What is the term used to describe the neural storage of a long-term memory?
What is memory consolidation
what is the term for the inability to for new memories...
What is anterograde amnesia
primacy effect
tendency to remember words at the beginning of a list especially well (as part of serial position effect)
cognitive perspective?
mental indexing system has become disorganized; file names of memories have been mixed together.