Encoding
An increase in a nerve cell’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation refers to ______
long term potentiation
This effortful processing strategy boosts our ability to form new memories by organizing items into familiar, manageable units.
Chunking
John studied for a vocabulary test in the same classroom and at the same time of day as his test. He performed better than other students who studied in different classrooms under different conditions. What explains why his performance was better?
Context-dependent memory
Brandy studied French in college. For his graduation trip he went to Europe and realized he had forgotten a lot of French. Years later, he went on another trip to Italy and remembered the same amount of French as his first trip. What best describes this phenomenon?
Ebbinghaus forgetting curve
What is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations?
Intelligence
What is the process called that refers to our ability to process many things simultaneously?
parallel processing
The order of operations, PEMDAS, is an example of what memory aid?
Mnemonics
Caroline is unable to remember events from her early childhood. What best describes this inability to recall childhood memories?
Infantile Amnesia
What is the term that describes when misleading information after an event alters memory of that event?
Misinformation effect
What is the condition in which a person who is otherwise limited in mental ability, has an exceptional specific skill, such as in computation or art.
Savant Syndrome
Repeating a friend's phone number before entering it into your contact list is an example of _____
the phonological loop
What type of memory refers to that of a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli?
Echoic memory
What type of amnesia prevents the formation of new memories after an injury?
Anterograde amnesia
Sophia vividly remembers going to Disneyland. She later finds out that she has never been before but her aunt has. What is this memory error called?
Source Amnesia
The type of intelligence that reflects accumulated knowledge which tends to increase with age.
crystallized intelligence or Gc
According to today’s modern-information processing model, in order to remember we must ___
Encode, Store, Retrieve
What type of memory refers to that of a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli?
Iconic memory
Successful retrieval of memory is most likely when using retrieval practices such as __?
Testing effect or meta cognition
A teacher has to learn 50 new student names each year and finds it easy to remember former students but not the new students' names. What is this called?
Proactive Interference
A psychologist named Robert Sternberg proposed that is three types of intelligence, that being ___, ___, ___.
analytical, creative, and practical
What step in the memory forming process is described as “fleeting”?
sensory memory
______ memories are facts and experiences that we consciously know. They are primarily encoding through conscious _____
Explicit, and Effortful Processing
What process explains why memory retention is stronger when information is meaningful or personally relevant?
Self-reference effect
When information is stored in memory but cannot be accessed due to lack of cues, what is this type of forgetting called?
Retrieval Failure
The theory that says our intelligence is based on a general ability factor as well as other specific abilities, bridged by crystallized and fluid intelligence.
Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory