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Encoding
Storing
Retrieving
Forgetting
Memory Construction
100
Encoding with meaning.
What is Semantic Encoding?
100
According to George Miller, we have room for this many items in our short-term memory
What is 7 (plus or minus 2)?
100
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally is this type of memory aide.
What is Mnemonic Device?
100
A failure of this suggests that one never converted information into a construct to be stored
What is Encoding Failure?
100
This “effect” happens when we include incorrect or misleading information in our memories
What is Misinformation Effect?
200
Encoding by thinking to yourself, “this new term rhymes with something else.”
What is Acoustic Encoding?
200
Our fleeting sensory memory of images
What is Iconic Memory?
200
Fill-in-the-blank questions measure this ability to retrieve information
What is Recall?
200
The basic defense mechanism that suppresses memories that cause anxiety
What is Repression?
200
Attributing the wrong source to events or experiences
What is Source Amnesia?
300
Encoding by organizing information in digestible bites
What is Chunking?
300
One of the two original authors of the 3-box model for memory
What is Atkinson OR Shiffring?
300
Multiple Choice question measure this ability to retrieve information
What is Recognition?
300
TOT, or Tip-of-the-Tongue phenomenon, is most likely an example of this kind of “failure” to remember
What is Retrieval Failure?
300
The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
What is Proactive Interference?
400
A memory formed by an extremely emotional event
What is Flashbulb Memory?
400
Echoic memory lasts about this long, whereas iconic memory lasts about this long
What is 3-4 seconds; few tenths of a second?
400
Our tendency to remember experiences consistent with our current mood
What is Mood Congruent Memory?
400
This psychologist demonstrated how memory storage decays, eventually leveling off around 33%
What is Ebbinghaus?
400
Her studies on the memories of children claiming abuse has been controversial, even resulting in death threats
What is Elizabeth Loftus?
500
Space, time, and frequency are usually encoded this way
What is Automatic Processing?
500
He discovered, and coined the term, iconic memory
What is George Sperling?
500
Term that refers to our tendency to later remember experiences more positively than we originally rated them, forgetting the mundane moments
What is Rosy Retrospection?
500
The inability to remember which numbers on a telephone dial are not accompanied by letters is most likely due to this type of forgetting
What is Encoding Failure?
500
The ability to learn something without any recollection of having learned it suggests the need to distinguish between these two types of memories
What is Explicit and Implicit (or Declarative and Nondeclarative)?