Memory
An essay exam asks students to produce information without giving them answer choices or hints. This memory test is being used.
What is free recall?
This Russian physiologist discovered classical conditioning through his experiments involving dogs and salivation.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This memory system briefly registers incoming sensory information before most of it disappears.
What is sensory memory?
Learning a new password makes it harder to remember your previous password. This type of interference is occurring.
What is retroactive interference?
This is the process through which a conditioned response is initially established or strengthened.
What is acquisition?
A multiple-choice exam uses this memory test because students identify the correct answer from several options.
What is recognition?
This psychologist used puzzle boxes and cats to develop the Law of Effect.
Who is Edward Thorndike?
This component of working memory temporarily stores and rehearses verbal and auditory information.
What is the phonological loop?
You accidentally enter your old password when trying to remember your new password. This type of interference is occurring.
What is proactive interference?
A dog gradually stops salivating when a bell is repeatedly presented without food. This process is occurring.
What is extinction?
Remembering how to ride a bicycle, play the guitar, or type automatically relies primarily on this type of memory.
What is procedural memory?
This behaviorist developed the operant conditioning chamber and studied reinforcement and shaping.
Who is B. F. Skinner?
This working-memory component allows you to mentally rotate objects and remember spatial locations.
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
Your professor gives you a hint that helps you remember information stored in long-term memory. The hint is called this.
What is a retrieval cue?
After being stung by a bee, a child becomes afraid of wasps and hornets despite never being stung by either.
What is stimulus generalization?
Exposure to one word makes it easier to process a related word later, even without consciously remembering the first exposure.
What is implicit priming?
This psychologist conducted the famous Bobo doll experiment, demonstrating how children imitate observed behavior.
Who is Albert Bandura?
This component of working memory controls attention and coordinates information across different mental tasks.
What is the central executive?
After damage to the hippocampus, a patient has great difficulty forming new conscious memories. This condition describes the impairment.
What is anterograde amnesia?
A dog learns to salivate to one specific tone but not to another similar tone that does not predict food.
What is stimulus discrimination?
This syndrome associated with vitamin B1 deficiency causes severe memory impairment and may involve confabulation.
What is Korsakoff's syndrome?
This researcher used thousands of nonsense syllables to study memory and developed the famous forgetting curve.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
This memory strategy involves organizing separate pieces of information into larger, meaningful groups, such as remembering 1776 and 1492 instead of eight individual digits.
What is chunking?
A person with severe memory impairment unintentionally fills gaps in their memory with invented details they believe to be true.
What is confabulation?
A trainer teaches an animal a sequence of connected behaviors, where completing one action provides the opportunity to perform the next.
What is chaining?