Memory Encoding
These are memory aids, like acronyms and imagery.
What are mnemonics?
The number of students who wear sweatshirts increases as the temperature decreases is an example of this type of correlation.
What is negative?
Alvin has trouble with memory due to a brain injury. The injury is most likely in this area.
This stage of memory has a limited capacity of about 7 items.
What is Short-Term Memory?
This is the tendency to search only for information that supports our currently held beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
What is the misinformation effect?
The test scores for AP Unit 1 were: 68, 79, 100, 56, 89, and 88. This is the mean.
What is 80?
I go to the grocery store and realize I forgot my phone which has the grocery list my husband gave me: bananas, apples, pears, milk, bread, flour, chocolate chips, butter, and peanut butter. I remember bananas and peanut butter, which is an example of these two effects.
What are the primacy and recency effects.
I have a vivid and detailed memory of the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001. My memory of this emotionally significant event is an example of this kind of memory.
What is a flashbulb memory?
This correlation coefficient expresses the strongest relationship between two variables in this list: -.91, -.71, -.32, +.8, +.908
What is -.91?
When memorizing a list of numbers, Liza organizes them by recognizable units (dates): 1941 1812 1776 1492. Liza is using this device.
What is chunking?
Assigning participants to treatment or non-treatment group is random ______________.
What is assignment?
Amir remembers everything up to the day he had an accident. He can still recall the past before that day but cannot form new long-term memories. He would likely be diagnosed with this.
What is anterograde amnesia?
These are the differences between implicit and explicit memory?
What are implicit is unconscious or automatic; whereas explicit requires conscious thought
(memory of how to salsa vs. memory of my psychology class materials)_
A teacher showing students words like "rude," "pushy," and "bold," which lead the students to act impatiently later is an example of this effect in implicit memory.
What is priming?
This is when new or old info disrupts recall of other information.
This is when a researcher has to tell you enough information for you to participate in the study.
What is informed consent?
This is the kind of memory retrieval that involves identifying information you've previously learned - like on a multiple choice test.
What is recognition?
According to Atkinson-Shiffrin's three-stage model of memory, this is the sequence that represents the correct order of memory processing.
What is sensory, short-term memory, and long-term memory?
This is the tendency to overestimate the percentage of people who agree with your beliefs, attitudes, or feelings.
What is the false consensus effect?
She discovered that certain questions could alter what a witness thought they saw, and lead to memory mistakes.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
The scores for the Unit 1 AP Psychology exam were normally distributed. The mean is 100 and the standard deviation is 15. This percentage of students should be within 1 standard deviation of the mean.
What is 68%?
The tip-of-the-tongue phenomena in Memory is a failure of this.
What is Retrieval?
You study psychology terms in your bedroom. Your ability to recall the terms better when back in your bedroom is an example of this.
What is context-dependent memory?
People forget things for many reasons. Here is are two.
What are encoding failure, failure to store in long term memory, retrograde/anterograde amnesia, proactive or retroactive interference, and/or failure to retrieve information?