Tests and Types
A multiple-choice exam is this method of testing memory.
What is a recognition?
He wore 'lavender leotards.' (Be very specific)
Who was the 'lanky leprechaun?'
Vision and hearing dominate in this part of the memory process.
What is sensory memory or sensory store?
Not being able to recall any memories under the age of 5.
What is infantile, or childhood, amnesia?
Memory pioneer who studied, and tried to memorize, hundreds of lists of nonsense syllables.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
Writing all 50 US states and capitals on a blank piece of paper is this method of testing memory.
What is a free recall?
She hardly ever smiled. (Be very specific)
Who was 'the toothless bathing beauty?'
Part of the brain essential for long-term memory storage.
What is the hippocampus?
Fatal memory disease characterized by a gradual build-up of plaque, abnormal clusters of protein fragments, causing tangles that progressively deteriorate neural functioning by killing healthy nerve cells.
What is Alzheimer's Disease or AD?
Most children who do not understand a question usually answer this way. (a big problem in eyewitness testimony)
What is 'yes.'?
'_______________ is the home of the Eiffel Tower, Cathedral of Notre Dame, and the Louvre.' is this method of testing memory (please do not answer 'What is Paris?,')?
What is a cued recall?
In the Slippery Snakes Activity, it should have been easier for half the class to remember answers to the questions because they _______________________.
What is 'made a vivid mental picture of the action?' or What is visualization?
A prompt that helps us remember. When we make a new memory, we include certain information that act as triggers to access the memory later (could be the emotion you were feeling at the time or the place in which the event occurred.)
What is a retrieval cue?
Even though he had no evidence, believed infantile amnesia was caused by repression due to the emotional trauma of early childhood.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The THREE MAIN CHARACTERS Dorothy meets in Oz are the SCARECROW, TIN MAN, and COWARDLY LION. This sentence is an example of the _______________ Effect.
What is Von Restorff? (sometimes called the 'isolation' or 'bizarreness' effect)
Being chosen to participate in the real Jeopardy! tv game show and then playing, and winning lots of money, would create these two types of memory.
What are episodic and explicit memory?
The Slippery Snakes Activity was a perfect example of this memory principle.
What is depth-of-processing principle?
Part of the memory process between sensory store and short-term memory. Quarterbacks and nurses are usually adept in this stage because of the various information they are currently attending to.
What is working memory? (executive functioning skills)
When amnesia patients learn to play a video game but not remember being taught it, or remember any individual play session, while becoming highly skilled at playing the game; this type of memory seems to be less affected by their dementia.
What are implicit memory? or What are procedural memory?
According to the depth-of-processing principle, how easily you can retrieve a memory depends on the number and types of ___________________ you can form.
What are associations/connections?
Reading a paragraph that includes words like CONSERVE or SUPPORT and then being able to remember those using cued recall (CON _ _ _ _ _ and SUP _ _ _ _) would be a way of priming this type of memory.
What is implicit memory?
If you can still remember answers to the Slippery Snakes activity we completed over two weeks ago, it has proven that you could ___________, ___________, and ___________ that memory.
What is encode (process), store, and retrieve (recall)?
According to the _____________ __________ principle, if you make a memory in a noisy coffee shop, you would most likely be able to retrieve that memory in a similarly noisy place.
What is encoding specificity?
Confabulations are common in dementia that affects this lobe of the brain.
What is the frontal lobe (prefrontal cortex)?
P______ A ___________ moves information from the sensory store to working memory with the possibility of passing it to short-term memory. Without doing this, however, there is no chance to ever move this information to long-term memory.
What is 'Paying Attention'?