Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Fallacies of Memory
Language
100

General knowledge of the world is part of what memory encoding?

Semantic encoding

100

The two main subcategories of long term memory.

Explicit and Implicit

100

A condition where the patient cannot form new memories/recall past memories

Amnesia

100

forgetting a LONG TERM memory is called

what is retrieval failure 

100

recalling certain sounds of speech in short term memory

phonemic memory

200

Name a method we can use to remember information.

Rehearsal, mnemonics, chunking, spacing, peg word, etc.

200

Visual information which is stored for a short time period.

What is iconic memory

200

one’s influence involving environmental factors while forming a memory

What are context effects

200

An example of this is thinking you’ve studied enough for a test but while taking it, you don’t remember any of the information 

Overconfidence

200

smallest unit of language which carries general knowledge

morphemes

300

Where is information channelled in the brain

hippocampus 

300

Memories that are very strong and often tied to senses or emotion from a specific time

What are flashbulb memories

300

Remembering more information when returning to the state in which the memory was formed is called

What is state dependent memory

300

removing or temporarily forgetting the conscious memory of a traumatic event is called

repressed memory/repression

300

study of meaning and it’s place within the mind

semantics

400

The tendency to remember something better when it is first in a list than the middle

What is primacy effect

400

Memories tied to auditory information

What is echoic memory 

400

What is the curve of forgetting

The negative exponential curve of how fast we forget information

400

the direct memory of a specific event can be altered after the event passes

misinformation effect 

400

the environment causes a certain behavior and consequences determine repetition 

Skinner’s operant learning theory

500

Explain the difference between effortful processing and automatic processing.

Effortful processing typically requires a method to remember detailed information while automatic is something that occurs or is retrieved subconsciously.

500

The strengthening of synaptic connections between neurons

What is long term potentiation

500

While at a party, Mia feels happy and remembers a time at her friends house where she was happy. This is an example of what kind of memory

mood congruent memory

500

a test used to interpret one’s memory of an event or incident based on physical responses and sometimes even fear

polygraph test

500

theory that languages limit the human mind and create differences among mankind 

linguistic determinism