Memory Systems
Inherit the Wind
I Thought I Studied!
Screw you, Dad!
Limerick Challenge
100

This is the storehouse of all knowledge we are not currently thinking of.

What is long-term memory?

100

This is a measure of emotional reactivity and responsiveness in children, associated with emotional life and feelings of emotional control in adulthood.

What is temperament?

100

This study/practice technique helps memory by practicing even after perfect performance is achieved.

What is overtraining?

100

This parenting style is often described as being cold and punishing, with many rules that are not explained, but are enforced.

What is "authoritarian"?

100

My thoughts on things are rather two-dimensional,
Right and wrong, aren't concepts which are bendable!
If you break the law
you're punished till raw,
so says my morality which is _________________.

What is pre-conventional?

200

This is the process by which information is pushed "deeper" into the memory system where it can be processed and stored.

What is "encoding"?

200

This begins with puberty.

What is adolescence?

200
This is the phenomenon by which irrelevant or incorrect information can be added into memories, distorting them

What is the "misinformation effect"?

200

This is one of the things that begins to decline with old age causing difficulty in processing information, but is not sensory.

What is "neural speed"?

200

My friends are always so skeptical,
that I say my family's esthetical.
When we sit down to eat,
the table is neat,
it's symmetric with my twins ________________.

What is identical?
300

This is the fancy word for forgetting, which is hilarious given that you can't remember it right now.

What is transience?

300

A cell with only 23 chromosomes, like a sperm or egg, is called this:

What is a gamete?

300

This type of memory is involved in remembering the details of an event as though you are reliving them.

What is "episodic" memory?

300

This stage of development, according to Piaget, is the one in which we begin to think about the future and ideals, which makes our conflicts with parents more intense.

What is "formal operations"?

400

This is the most durable type of explicit memory.

What is semantic?

400

This is the last portion of your brain to gain myelin. It is also the part of your brain associated with impulse control and planning.

What is the frontal lobe?

400
This prevents memory formation via distraction, thus preventing encoding.

What is absentmindedness?

400

Despite the fact that much of our brain is the result of genetics, we can still make substantial changes to the brain via experience, due to this ability.

What is neural plasticity?

400

While some might have called it intellectual,
it caused controversy so perpetual.
For Freud's theory was based
on our bodily waste,
our eating, and all things ____________.

What is psychosexual?

500

When studying, you should engage in this process which can consist of visualizations and relating concepts and facts to your own experiences.

What is deep processing?

500

This is the first stage of cognitive development according to Piaget.

What is the sensorimotor period?

500

This mental task improves memory by way of placing similar content "together" so as to reduce the total amount of information needed to be encoded.

What is "chunking"?

500

Lead, mercury, and chickenpox are these types of negative influences on uterine development.

What are teratogens?

500

I've forgotten how to make a clay urn.
It's a process I can't clearly discern.
But I know I remember
because my fingers are limber,
and I get better quickly as I ___________.

What is relearn?

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