Where Are My Keys?
Memory Basics
I Remember That
Problems
Glass Box of Emotions
100

On average, how many items can your short-term memory hold?

What is 7 items 
100

Retrieve information which you learned at an earlier time

What is recall 

100

Strategies such as creating an acronym or a rhyme to help you remember information easier

What are mnemonics 

100

Step by step directions which lead you to the solution to a problem 

What is an algorithm 

100

Things that "push our buttons" and cause stress 

What are stressors 

200

Freudian idea that your brain has a defense mechanism which hides anxiety-inducing memories from you consciousness 

What is repression 

200

How much information can you long-term memory hold?

What is unlimited or infinite 

200

Organizing information into familiar groups to make the information more manageable and easier to remember

What is chunking 

200

Strategy to solve a problem which includes the trial and error technique  

What is a heuristic 

200

These are universal when it comes to emotions 

What are facial expressions 

300

The inability to form new memories or retrieve past information are both types of what 

What is amnesia 

(anterograde=no new memories)

(retrograde=no past memories)

300

Doing this at night can help you remember the information you studied for the test the next day

What is sleep 

300

A vivid emotionally significant memory 

What is a flashbulb memory 

300

Humans tend to overestimate the accuracy of our knowledge because we are ______

What is overconfident 

300

When you are told you cannot sit with a group of people at lunch 

What is ostracism 

400

What we fail to ___________ we will never remember

What is encode 

400

Practicing information over and over again 

What is maintenance rehearsal 

400

Replaying a memory may lead you to alter that memory. The process or replaying, adding new information, then saving the "new" memory 

What is reconsolidation 

400

When your ability to talk or understand language is impaired. Usually the damage is on the left side of your brain

What is aphasia 

400

The need for us to build relationships and feel part of a group 

What is affiliation needs 

500

Henry Molaison has this part of his brain operated on which made him unable to form new memories 

What is the hippocampus 

500

The activation of a particular association in memory 

What is priming 

500

When misleading information has altered one's memory of an event 

What is the misinformation effect 

500

The way a problem is presented or worded can greatly impact your decisions and judgements 

What is framing 

500

Dave is always wanting to talk about himself and be the center of attention while caring very little about anyone else's "boring" lives

What is narcissism