Information Processing
How do you get information into your brain?
What is encoding.
When an image remains "burnt" into our eyes for a brief moment, then begins to fade, what type of memory is displayed?
What is iconic memory.
What is the inability to form new memories?
What is amnesia.
What is the phenomena of deja vu?
When one is triggered by reentering a familiar situation.
Who graphed the forgetting curve of nonsense syllables?
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus.
What part is known as the hard drive, and is how we hold onto information?
What is storage.
Which type of memory is displayed when a sound is briefly stored?
What is echoic memory.
What are consciously recalled memories?
What is explicit memory. (Declarative memory).
When in a certain mood, it is easier to recall memories that fit that mood, what is this known as?
What is mood-congruent memory.
What is the on and off switch for genes that helps memories?
What is the protein CREB.
What are the three processes involved in memory?
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval.
What is a working or short-term memory?
A temporary holding place for information we are using at that moment.
What is memory without conscious recall.
Knowing a similar language while learning another makes it easier, what is this an example of?
What is positive transfer.
Who said memories are revised as a defense mechanism?
Who is Sigmund Freud.
What kinds of retrieval cues are used to get information out of memory?
Associations, context, and mood.
What lowers the threshold needed to achieve action potential?
What is long term potentiation.
Which type of memories occur at the time of a crisis? They are very accurate.
What are flashbulb memories.
What does the misinformation effect refer to?
What is the distortion of memory by information provided after an event.
What are three reasons people forget?
What is decay, ineffective coding, and interference.
What is it called when one is unable to recall an answer due to them not paying attention?
What is a encoding failure.
What increased neurotransmitter increases long term potentiation and memory?
What is glutamate.
Which two parts of the brain play an essential role in memory?
What are the hippocampus and the cerebellum.
____ interference is to the inability to learn new information because of old information, as _____ interference is to the inability to recall old information due to new information.
What is proactive interference to retroactive interference.
Memories before which age are considered unreliable?
What is age 3.