Memory
Creation
Retrieving Memories
Maintaining Memories
Storing Memories
BONUS
100

The 1st stage of memory creation.

What is encoding?
100

The inattentive or shallow encoding of events.

What is absentmindedness?

100

There are ___ types of memory stores.

What is 3?

100

When people lose memories of past events, facts, people, and personal information.

What is retrograde amnesia?

100

What is the medical condition that made everyone in class dry heave when a photo of it was shown on the TV?

What is intersex?

200

The 2nd stage of memory creation.

What is storage?

200

A stimuli that can automatically trigger memories.

What is a retrieval cue?

200

The inability to access memories from long term storage.

What is forgetting?

200

The inability to create new memories.

What is anterograde amnesia?

200

What did the second to last Alzheimer’s victim put in her mouth?

What is a small rock?

300

The 3rd stage of memory creation.

What is retrieval?

300

This term describes a flash of memories caused by an important event.

What is flashbulb memory?

300
This occurs when unwanted memories recur despite the desire not to have them.

What is persistence?

300

Memories that people are not conscious of.

What are implicit memories.

300

*DAILY DOUBLE*

This is Dr. Wentzel’s middle initial.

What is letter J?

400

The practice of directing mental resources to relevant information while ignoring irrelevant information.

What is selective attention?

400

The changing of your memories over time so that they become consistent with your current beliefs or attitudes.

What is memory bias?

400

A process of using working memory to organize information into meaningful groups or units is known as this.

What is chunking?

400

This type of memory is future oriented and helps you to do something at a future time.

What is prospective memory?

400

What was the name of the nursing home pimp/player in the movie about Alzheimer’s?

Who is Woody?

500

During encoding, short term memory is primarily ___?

What is auditory?

500
Three of the five ways memory distortion occurs.

Acceptable answers:

What are memory bias, flashbulb memories, misattribution, suggestibility, and false memory.

500

Repeating information over and over to encode it.

What is maintenance rehearsal.

500

Working memory is here the brain.

What is the prefrontal cortex?

500

These can help prevent Alzheimer’s.

What are sleep, a healthy diet, and mental activity

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