Unit 7 and 8
How much information can we hold in our short-term memory and for how long does it stay there?
5-9 items OR 7 items for 15 to 30 seconds
Memory strategy of organizing information into larger more meaningful categories
Chunking
If you suddenly have a realization of a solution to a problem, what has occurred?
Insight
A machine that records many different changes in the body while the person answers questions; a lie detector test.
Polygraph
A memory you remember more vividly because it is emotionally significant
Abbey takes algebra during 8th grade. In 9th, she has to take it all over again. She finds she learns the material a lot quicker during 9th grade. This is an example of _________.
relearning
Angelina wakes up from a coma, able to recall the past, but unable to make any new memories. Angelina suffers from...
Anterograde amnesia
PEMDAS, NASA, Never Eat Soggy Waffles, and creating songs/rhymes are examples of
Mnemonics
Name the first 3 levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs in order (lowest to highest)
1: Physiological
2: Safety
3: Love and Belonging
If you _______ good then you are more likely to ______ good.
feel good-do good phenomenon
The process of getting information into the memory system
Encoding
When doing a research paper, a person only includes the information that supports their thesis and ignores all the evidence that goes against it. What is this an example of?
Confirmation bias
Our tendency to recall the last and first items in a list
Serial position effect
In Inside Out, we see this measure of memory shown through different tubes. The memory workers use the tubes to send memories from long-term up to headquarters.
Recall
Barney has hit his head in a freak accident and can no longer remember who he is. The doctor says he is suffering from ____________ amnesia.
retrograde
The concept that memory for novel information fades quickly, and then levels out.
Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve
The 3 categories of stressors
1: Daily hassles
2: Life changes
3: Catastrophic events
According to Freud, we ________ painful and anxiety inducing memories and lock them away in our unconscious as a method of protecting us, from ourselves
repress
The inability to see a problem from a new perspective is known as _____________.
Fixation
The need to build relationships and feel part of a group.
Saying “90% of people survive this illness” instead of “10% of people die from this illness” is an example of what?
Framing
What are the three aspects of emotion? Or the 3 basic ways we express/show emotion
1: bodily arousal
2: expressive behaviors
3: conscious experience
Motivation theory that states our motivation is rooted in biological needs. If you are hungry, you will go get food
drive-reduction theory
Your memory is mailable. What is the process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again?
reconsolidation
The items on your shopping list, the assignments you have for homework, birthdays of your best friends. You are intentionally remembering all of this information. What type of memory is this.
Explicit memory