Warm Up
The recalling and retaining of information and past experiences.
What is memory?
When your brain can work on both two types of processing at the same time.
What is parallel processing?
Memory that normally lasts about ¼ second in the visual register.
What is iconic memory?
The technique that humans use to hold larger amounts of information at once to remember something. This allows people to take smaller bits of information and combine them into more meaningful, and therefore more memorable, wholes.
What is chunking?
What is procedural and emotional?
The 3 steps of the IPM
What is encoding, storage, and retrieval?
What is selective attention?
When our memory for past events is altered after exposure to misleading information.
What is the misinformation effect?
Two types of explicit memory
What is episodic and semantic memory?
Memories for personal events in a specific time and place
What is episodic memory?
The hard drive of memory
What is storage?
Processing for meaning. Relating it to past experiences. This is effortful and requires one’s attention.
What is deep processing?
What is it called when people normally only pay attention to only a small portion of incoming information.
What is selective attention?
The passage of time causes forgetting.The longer information is not accessed, increases the chances of forgetting it. What theory is this?
What is decay theory?
People tend to recall the first items and last items in a list.
What is the serial positioning effect?
Knitting a scarf while your mind goes elsewhere is an example of what type of processing?
What is automatic processing?
When most people excel at remembering personally relevant information.
What is the self-reference effect?
DAILY DOUBLE
Memory that can hold whatever is rehearsed in 1.5 to 2 seconds.
What is short-term memory?
Memory for general facts and concepts not linked to a specific time
What is semantic memory?
Occurs when you are being tested on new information and old information interferes proper retrieval.
What is proactive interference?
What is effortful processing?
Five things that may affect your memory.
What is culture, attention, distractions, time, and meaning?
Memory that can last up to several seconds in the auditory register.
What is echoic memory?
Occurs when you are being tested on old information and new information interferes with proper retrieval.
What is retroactive interference?
The phenomenon of failing to retrieve a word or term from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is almost there.
What is tip of the tongue?