Long-term Memory
Where all information, memories, and experiences over the course of one's whole life are stored.
What is long-term memory?
Working memory used to known as ____.
What is short-term memory?
The technique that consisted of giving participants words to memorize and then immediately proceeding with a different distracting cognitive task to not allow time for rehearsal to study memory.
What is the Brown/Peterson & Peterson technique?
The region of the brain that is primarily responsible for the storage of long-term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
The technique that involves condensing information into a memory unit to make it easier to remember.
What is chunking?
Name the experimental psychologist who's research focused on semantics (proactive interference and release from proactive interference).
What is Wickens et al. (1976)
Name the condition a person has when they receive a head injury and are unable to recall past long-term memories.
What is retrograde amnesia?
George Miller's magical number theory states that we are only able to hold around ______ items in our short-term memory.
What is 7 +/- 2?
The effect of a word's placement in a list and the probability of a participant being able to recall said item and was discovered by _____.
What is serial position effect; Hermann Ebbinghaus?
Name the general term used to define severe memory loss that affects an individual's daily life.
What is dementia?
The ability for an individual to recall items at the beginning of a list experience the ________; whereas the ability for an individual to recall items at the end of a list experience the _______.
What is the primacy effect; recency effect?
The reason why George Millers' (1956) article was groundbreaking in the world of psychology.
What is his article focused on internal mental processes rather than observable behavior and behaviorism was dominating the psychology world during 1956?
Name the ways the brain processes and encodes long-term memories.
What is implicit memories and explicit memories (episodic and semantic)?
This factor is responsible for causing limits to the capacity of an individuals working memory.
What is semantics?
Name the experimental psychologists that tested participants, aged 17-74, on their ability to name students in their graduating class in the experimental study "Fifty years of memory for names and faces: A cross-sectional approach."
What is Barrick, Barrick & Wittlinger?