Memory
The 3 processes involved in memory.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
The memory stage with the briefest duration?
What is sensory memory?
The two different long-term memory stores and their alternative names.
What are implicit or non declarative memory and explicit or declarative memory?
Automatic associations that aid retrieval and require little neural activity.
What is priming?
If you are unable to remember events that occurred before a trauma, you may be suffering from this.
What is retrograde amnesia?
The persistence of learning over time through encoding, storage, and retrieval.
What is memory?
What is long-term memory?
Another name for the encyclopedia and diary of long-term memory.
What is semantic and episodic memory?
Whenever Suzie has a really rough day she finds herself thinking about the sexual assault she suffered last year. Susie is experiencing this retrieval aid.
What is state-dependent effect?
The name for the researcher's finding that most information is forgotten in the first 2 days after exposure
What is Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve?
The most difficult of the 3 methods for measuring memory.
What is recall?
The best strategy for overcoming the limitation of short-term memory.
What is chunking?
Motor skills and cognitive skills are stored here.
What is implicit or non declarative memory?
When taking an exam in the classroom, when Tracy hits a tough question he stares at the screen and tries to recall the PowerPoint slide and class discussion on concept in the test question. Tracy is taking advantage of this.
What is context-dependent memory?
A memory condition that is believed to be primarily due to an immature hippocampus.
What is infantile amnesia?
The penny task was an example of this.
What is recognition?
The 7+ or - 2 rule.
What is the capacity of short-term memory?
The hippocampus and frontal lobe are involved in processing these memories.
What are explicit or declarative memories?
The term for the tendency to recall the last items in a list.
What is the recency effect?
After learning the latest version of Microsoft Word at work, Jamie has a difficult time remembering how to do certain functions on her home computer that has the previous version of Word. This is an example of this concept related to forgetting.
What is retroactive interference?
A comprehensive final exam is this kind of task that can measure memory?
What is relearning?
This is required in order to move information from sensory to short-term memory.
What is attention?
The 2 major strategies for moving information from short-term to long-term memory.
What is maintenance rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal?
Breaking material to be studied into very small chunks of information is a strategy to overcome this effect.
What is the serial position effect?
Another name for motivated forgetting.
What is repression or repressed memories?