Processes
Attempting to recall a memory
Organized information is memorized better. Instead of remembering 7 numbers 4578932 I split them into 457 89 32- a group of three numbers.
What is chunking?
7 plus/minus elements. To test it you need to present a long row of words/digits. After that you can ask to retrieve whatever the subject remembers.
What is the capacity of short-term memory? How could you test it?
I is the first stage of memory processing
Iconic and echoic memories are part of the stage of memory known as __________ memory.
Encoding, storage, retrieval
What are the 3 processes of memory?
Maintains information is short-term memory through constant repetition of material.
What is rehearsal/maintenance rehearsal?
Hermann Ebbinghaus. The curve he described suggested that most forgetting occurs very rapidly after learning something.
Who was among the first cognitive psychologists who studied memory? What is forgetting curve?
Cierra is taking a test in geography and is trying to recall the capital of Turkmenistan.
Whenever Garrett tries to remember his new phone number, he keeps getting it mixed up with his old phone number. Garrett’s failure to remember his new phone number is probably due to __________ interference.
This process has three components: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.
Rearranging incoming information into meaningful or familiar patterns
What does chunking include?
A person loses memories of events that occur after a head injury
It is the visual sensory memory (SM) register pertaining to the visual domain and a fast-decaying store of visual information.
What is iconic memory?
When a person is sad and depressed, he or she has a tendency to remember more sad memories, which illustrates __________ memory
This process involves maintaining information in memory over time
A visit to your elementary classroom might help you remember more of the names of some of your classmates.
Information given after an event can alter a person’s memory of the event
The memory system that contains the memory for how to type on a typewriter or drive an automobile
at the beginning and end; in the middle
The process that goes before all others in order for a memory to be stored.
You move to a new house and memorize your new phone number. Now, you can’t remember your old phone number.
What is an example of retroactive interference?
Dave is reminiscing about the first car he owned in high school and how he felt the first time he drove it through town.