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Echoic memory fades after approximately how many seconds?
What is 3 to 4 seconds
100
You do this to get the information into memory.
What is encoding
100
A vivid, detailed memory of an emotional event such as 911 is called what?
What is a flashbulb memory
100
Having awareness of ourselves and our environment is the basic definition of what?
What is consciousness
100
What part of the sleep cycle is happening when your eyes are moving, but not rapidly, and dreams are less emotional/memorable?
What is NREM (nonrem) or stage 4
200
Our short-term memory span is approximately how many items?
What is 7
200
A type of encoding in which something is explained further, and a connection of new information to old information is made. What type of encoding is this?
What is elaboration
200
After finding her old combination lock, Janice can't remember its combination because she keeps confusing it with the combination of her new lock. She is experiencing what?
What is retroactive interference
200
If you have awareness and introspection of processing, meaning you will think about and do one thing at a time you are on which level of processing information?
What is the high road
200
The sleep cycle is approximately ________ minutes.
What is 90
300
Memory techniques such as acronyms and the peg-word system are called what?
What are mnemonics
300
What are the types of information stored in sensory memory?
What is iconic and echoic
300
Recalling something that you had once merely imagined happening as something you had directly experienced best illustrates what?
What is source amnesia
300
When there is a lot of stimulus (voices for example), but you zero in on ONE of those voices to focus your attention on this is referred to as what?
What is the cocktail party effect
300
The perceptual error in which we fail to see an object when our attention is directed elsewhere is
What is inattentional blindness
400
Having read a story once, certain amnesia victims will read it faster the second time even though they can't recall having see the story before. They have most likely suffered damage to what part of their brain?
What is the hippocampus
400
When you process something semantically, at which level of processing are you at?
What is deep processing
400
Austin can't remember Jack Smith's name because he wasn't paying attention when Jack was formally introduced. Austin's poor memory is best explained in terms of what?
What is encoding failure
400
A "time giver" is also called what?
What is a Zeitgeber
400
Which sleep disorder is most likely to be accompanied by sleepwalking and sleeptalking?
What are night terrors
500
The three-stage processing model of memory was proposed by who?
Who are Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin
500
Although you can't recall the answer to a question on your psychology midterm, you have a clear mental image of the textbook page on which it appears. Evidently, your _____________ encoding of the answer was __________.
What is visual;automatic
500
After Teresa was verbally threatened by someone in a passing car, she was asked whether she recognized the man who was driving the car. Several hours later, Teresa mistakenly recalled that the driver was a male rather than a female. Teresa's experience best illustrates what?
What is the misinformation effect
500
The vivid, memorable, emotional part of your sleep cycle is called what?
What is REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
500
The cluster of brain cells that control the circadian rhythm is the
What is suprachiasmatic nucleus