Memory Systems
Encoding and Retrieving Memories
Memory Constructing & Reconstructing
Knowledge/Problem Solving
Sleep
100
What is the process of converting short term memories into long term memories in the brain?
What is consolidation
100
This is an extremely vivid and detailed memory about an event and the conditions surrounding how one learned about the event (extremely emotional memories)
What are flashbulb memories
100
These are an organized cluster of memories that constitutes one's knowledge about events, objects, and ideas
What are schemas
100
This is a problem that has a clear initial state and goal state
What is a well-defined problem
100
This is a disorder in which a person experiences extreme daytime sleepiness and even sleep attacks
What is narcolepsy
200
In the film "50 First Dates," Drew Barrymore's character has what type of amnesia?
What is anterograde amnesia
200
This form of rehearsal is similar to deep processing, in which an individual prolongs the exposure to information by thinking about its meaning
What is elaborative rehearsal
200
The example of Beth Rutherford in your text illustrates the dangers of these. In this case, these caused the false conviction of her father.
What are false memories
200
We use these to achieve goal states
What are operators
200
What are the two theories of sleep?
What is Restore and Repair hypothesis and Preserve and Protect hypothesis
300
Recalling the first few items from a list and the last few items, but only an item or two from the middle defines this
What is the Serial position effect
300
This is one mnemonic device that may be helpful for remembering information. In this device, you can have someone create a shopping list for you while you prepare yourself by imagining a familiar path. When you are ready to learn the list, read a single item on the list and imagine it at some point on the path. This example explains which mnemonic device?
What is the method of loci
300
This method entails having participants study a list of highly related words called semantic associates
What is the DRM (Deese-Roediger-McDermott) procedure
300
As you have read in this section, humans are not always logical. These are helpful decision making and problem solving tools, but they do not follow logical principles
What are heuristics
300
Sleep cycles are most often defined by the EEG (a device that measures brain waves). On this EEG, what kind of brain waves are associated with Stage 2 sleep?
What are K-complex and sleep spindles
400
The Working Memory Model consists of three storage components. Name all three
What is the Phonological loop, Visuospatial sketchpad, and Episodic buffer
400
This finding states that taking practice tests can improve exam performance, even without additional studying
What is the testing effect
400
TRICKED!!! This is actually a sleep question This is the discomfort a person feels when sleep cycles are out of sync with light and darkness
What is jet lag
400
We organize our knowledge about the world through these where usually, we tend to arrange categories from general to specific
What is semantic networks
400
Sigmund Freud viewed dreams as an unconscious expression of wish fulfillment. He went on to explain that when we dream, we experience vivid imagery in the form of these two things
What is manifest content and latent content
500
In the video shown in class of Clive, it was clear that he was unable to form new memories or remember more recent memories from his past, yet he was still able to play the piano and write in his journal. This defines what type of memory?
What is Procedural memories (Non-declarative memories)
500
Hermann Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve confirms this about our memory
What is: forgetting occurs right away and the rate of forgiving eventually slows to the point where one does not seem to forget at all
500
In the law video shown in class, Dr. Borger, a law professor at a local college had someone come into her classroom and pretend to rob her. After the incident, she had an investigator come in and interview her students to describe the individual. After hearing their various descriptions, one can assume that these (?) are not as reliable and procedures to make them better should be used in the future
What are eyewitness testimonies
500
Experience and culture can shape the way we organize our knowledge. Your book discusses ideas of how objects relate to one another differ between people from North America and Eastern Asia. People from North America tend to focus on individual, focal objects in a scene, whereas people from Japan tend to focus on....
What is how objects are interrelated (in relation to their environment)
500
What is the order of sleep stages during the first hour and a half of a night's rest?
What is Stages 1-2-3-4-3-2-REM
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