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What is the difference retroactive and proactive interference?
Retroactive interference is when you are only able to remember the new memories and can’t remember the old memories. Where as proactive interference is when you only remember the old memories and not the new memories.
What is the failure to recall information without memory cues?
Cue dependent memory
What age does infantile amnesia affect?
Before 2 years old
BLANK is known as small pieces of set info that are bound together to create a meaningful whole later on in memory
Chunking
What is Herman Ebbinghaus’s retention/forgetting curve?
The decline of memory overtime when there is no attempt to retain it.
What did Elizabeth Loftus prove when she experimented with faces, car accidents, and stop signs?
She proved the misinformation effects.
What type of memory is deliberate, intentional, and conscious?
Explicit memories
What role does the cerebellum play in memory?
To process procedural memories
What is the inability to form new memories called?
Anterograde Amnesia
What is George Millers “Magic Number 7”?
A concept which states that the limit of storable information is 7 (+/-2)
What is the difference between effortful processing, and automatic processing?
Effortful requires attention, automatic is unconscious.
What is a mnemonic technique in which the items to be remembered are converted into mental images and associated with specific positions or locations?
Method of Loki
What role does the hippocampus play in memory?
Helps process and retrieve two types of memory, declarative memories, and spatial relationships.
If you took a multiple choice test, what measurement of memory would be used?
Recognition
Deep Processing is defined as…
Elaboration rehearsal which involves a more meaningful analysis of info and leads to better recall
How is discerning true and false memories similar to children’s eyewitness recall?
In discerning true and false memories one cannot remember if the memory is a true memory or if it was a dream or a lie or a made up imagination that we made, and with kids it is the same way.
Some information stored in the brain gradually fades away. What is this called?
Storage Decay
Which items in a list would you recall the best because of serial position effect?
The first and last items
The more you are exposed to a stimulus, the less sensitive you are to it. What is this called?
Adaptive Sense
What is iconic memory?
Sensory memory of visual stimuli
What are ways that can help one remember what they studied?
Rehearsing repeatedly, deep processing, retrieval cues, mnemonic devices (making up a story to help remember), sleeping and testing their knowledge.
Which two terms are under the umbrella term of declarative memories?
Semantic Memory and Episodic Memory
How does sleep help improve memory?
If you study before sleeping it minimizes proactive and retroactive interference and the brain processes your memories when in stage for of sleep.
If you are in a good mood you are more likely to recall good memories and if you are in a bad mood you are more likely to recall bad ones. What is this an example of?
Mood Congruent Memory
What is Encoding Failure?
A breakdown in the process of getting information in to the cognitive system