Types of Memory
Encoding
Memory Strategies
Forgetting
Misc.
100
This type of memory is used to remember parts of a process like knowing how to pedal a bicycle.
What is procedural memory?
100
This type of encoding is an effective way to remember academic course material.
What is semantic encoding?
100
This type of memory is used to identify a criminal in a lineup of suspects.
What is recognition?
100
Tip of the tongue phenomenon is a clear demonstration of a failure in this.
What is retrieval?
100
When you are unhappy while studying, you are more likely to remember if you are unhappy while taking a test.
What is state-dependent memory?
200
This is recounting a event and playing it like a movie in our heads. For example: remembering the day you started high school.
What is episodic memory?
200
Putting things into manageable groups in order to encode the information is an example of this strategy.
What is chunking?
200
Taking information and putting it in your own words, then reading it out loud is an example of this type of memory strategy.
What is rehearsal?
200
Someone with a traumatic brain injury can remember his/her past, but has trouble encoding new memories because this part of his/her brain is damaged.
What is the amygdala?
200
This is a frame of reference that we use to shape how we react to a stimulus.
What is a schema?
300
This type of memory records information from vision, hearing, smell, taste, etc. This is a brief memory.
What is sensory memory?
300
These are very detailed and vivid memories as a result of a significant event, like remembering the details of 9/11.
What is a flashbulb memory?
300
This is like the peg-word mnemonic, connecting items in order to help with recall.
What is elaboration?
300
After an accident, a woman can't remember anything about her life before the accident. Over time, her memories returned.
What is an example of retrograde amnesia?
300
This is Unlimited.
What is the limit to our long term memory?
400
This is the memory that holds information for about 30 seconds.
What is short-term memory?
400
Retention of coded information over time is known as this.
What is storage?
400
ROYGBIV is an example of this.
What is a mnemonic?
400
This is the belief that we forget information because new and old information conflict with each other.
What is interference theory?
400
Decay, repression, amnesia, or stroke.
What are causes of impaired memory?
500
People with superior autobiographical memory or "photographic" memory have this type of memory.
What is eidetic memory?
500
Encoding can be hindered if there is damage to the temporal lobe.
What causes anterograde amnesia?
500
In this memory strategy, a person creates a visual memory palace in their mind and puts people in the palace at certain locations to help remember them.
What is the method of loci?
500
After watching the World Series this year, you find it difficult to recall the events of last year's World Series.
What is an example of retroactive interference?
500
Temporary loss of blood supply due to injury, severe chronic alcoholism, stroke, or dementia.
What are the causes of amnesia?
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