Memory Vocab
This form of memory holds between 5 and 9 chunks of information.
What is short term, or working, memory?
This animal is responsible for most power outages in the US
What are squirrels?
This exit number was once "Exit 12" on Route 6
What is Exit 89?
Nature: ___________ :: Nurture: Environment
What is genetics?
Subjects of an experiment need to know their participation and risks of a study, also known as ________________.
What is "informed consent?"
Also known as the memory palace.
What is the method of loci?
The majority of people in this island country believe in elves.
What is Iceland?
The Eldia ship sunk off of this beach in 1984
What is Nauset Beach?
Research shows that we tend to get our morals and values from this group of people, whereas much of our behaviors comes from our friends.
Who are parents?
After an experiment is over, subjects need to be told their role in an experiment and what the experiment was all about, also known as _____________.
What is debrief?
Explicit memories are processed in this brain structure.
What are explicit memories?
One quarter of all bones in the human body are located here.
What is the foot?
He was a translator for the Pilgrims and is buried in Chatham.
Who was Squanto?
African and Asian countries are often collectivist in nature, whereas North America and Europe are generally ______________.
What is individualist?
Shhh! Don't gossip about participants or reveal their identities, also known as ______________.
What is confidentiality?
The tendency to recall items at the beginning and end of a list.
What is the serial positioning effect?
This native American crop was used before toilet paper.
What are corn (cobs)?
The three most common trees on Cape Cod are oak, locust and __________.
What is pine?
Predispositions are caused by this word for changes in the genetic code.
What are predispositions?
Philip Zimbardo ran his infamous Prison Experiment at this university.
What is Stanford?
This is the opposite of cramming.
What is distributed rehearsal?
This famous American landmark was originally purposed as a lighthouse.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Most of the large boulders on Cape Cod originated in this state.
What is Maine?
These kinds of studies help researchers understand which parts of a personality are attributable to nature or nurture.
What are twin/adoption studies?
The Milgram Experiment with its fake electric shocks was testing the ____________ of its subjects.
What is obedience?