Chapter 1
Functions to record, store, and process information.
What is MEMORY?
A lobe of the brain that is involved with source monitoring.
A method that helps with serial recall.
What is CHAINING?
A component of working memory that helps with task-switching through subvocalized self-instruction.
What is the PHONOLOGICAL LOOP?
At high levels of practice, further repetition does not contribute to improvement in a skill
What is PERFORMANCE PLATEAU?
A model of memory that includes a sensory, short-term and long-term memory store.
What is the MODAL MODEL?
A neural network that is active during mind wandering.
What is the PRIMACY effect?
A working memory component that acts as an attentional controller.
What is the CENTRAL EXECUTIVE?
The advantage of spacing trials across a period of time than to mass them together into a single learning block.
What is SEMANTIC MEMORY?
Part of the temporal lobe that is highly associated with long-term explicit memories.
What is the HIPPOCAMPUS?
Error in recall of verbal material when items are similar in sound
What is the PHONOLOGICAL SIMILARITY EFFECT?
A model of working memory developed by Cowan that proposes there is a central executive, focus of attention, and long-term memory.
What is the EMBEDDED-PROCESSES MODEL?
The hypothesis that people’s attention is captured by information encountered long-time ago relative to something recent to explain the distributed practice effect.
What is the DEFICIENT PROCESSING HYPOTHESIS?
Another term for NONDECLARATIVE MEMORY.
A brain imaging tool that involves the injection of a radioactive substance.
What is a Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) scan?
The inability to transfer to an auditory code due to disruption of the articulatory rehearsal mechanism.
What is ARTICULATORY SUPPRESSION?
What is the CRYSTALLIZED SYSTEM?
A neurotransmitter that is released into the hippocampus and helps to facilitate learning.
What is DOPAMINE?
A method of study that helps to examine the duration of iconic memory.
What is Sperling's DELAYED PARTIAL REPORT METHOD?
Brain area that processes emotions.
What is the AMYGDALA?
What is a MODALITY-INDEPENDENT feature?
A model that focuses on the sharing of attentional resources for
a) maintenance of information in working memory
b) processing information in working memory
What is the TIME-BASED RESOURCE SHARING MODEL?
Liking or disliking something is influenced by its consistent association with a pleasant or unpleasant stimulus
What is EVALUATIVE CONDITIONING?