Remember This!
This is how many items/pieces of information a person tend to hold in their short term memory
What is 7 (plus or minus 2)?
This Swiss psychologist developed a stage theory of cognitive developent
Who is Jean Piaget?
This American psychologist is famous for her research on the reliability of eyewitness testimony
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
These are the basic cells of the nervous system that transmit information.
What are neurons?
This term describes the process of losing information over time
What is forgetting?
This duo who developed the Multi-Store Memory Model
Who is Atkinson and Shiffrin?
According to Piaget, this is the stage from birth to about 2 years where infants learn through sense and actions
What is the sensorimotor stage?
In Loftus’ car crash experiment, participants who heard this verb gave the highest estimates of speed.
What is smashed
The gap between two neurons where neurotransmitters travel is called this.
What is the synapse?
According to Ebbinghaus, this graph shows how quickly we forget information without rehearsal.
What is the forgetting curve?
This is the process of converting sensory input into a form that can be stored in memory
What is encoding?
This term describes the ability to understand that physical things continue to exist even when they cannot be seen.
What is object permanence?
Loftus and Pickrell (1995) showed that it is possible to create entirely false autobiographical memories using this method.
What are false memory implantation / “lost in the mall” technique?
This brain area in the left frontal lobe is responsible for speech production.
What is Broca’s area?
This level of processing, according to Craik and Lockhart, is the least effective for remembering
What is structural?
These two types of long term memory include knowledge of facts and personal experiences?
What are semantic and episodic memory?
This is Piaget's stage when children begin to think logically about events but struggles with abstract ideas
What is the concrete operational stage?
This term is used to describe variables that cannot be controlled?
What are Estimator variables?
This bundle of nerve fibres connects the two hemispheres of the brain
What is the corpus callosum?
This effect shows that information processed in relation to the self is better remembered than information processed at other levels
What is the self-referential effect?
This effect explains why people remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than the middle
What is the serial position effect?
According to Piaget, the process of modifying existing schemas to incorporate new information is called this.
What is accommodation?
Police interviews and line-ups are examples of this type of variable
What is system variables?
This strip of brain tissue, spanning the frontal and parietal lobes, integrates sensory input with motor commands and controls voluntary movement
What is the sensorimotor cortex?
This level of processing is the most effective for remembering information, according to Craik and Tulving
What is Semantic?