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Encoding
Storage
Retrival
Memory quirks
Miscellaneous
100
What are the three types of encoding?
What is visual, acoustic, and semantic
100
What are the three types of storage?
What is short term, long term, and sensory
100
What two effects make up the serial position effect?
What is the primacy and recency effects
100
What is confabulation?
What is filling in gaps in memory by fabricating stories
100
What is the technical term for loss of memory?
What is amnesia
200
What is the most effective type of encoding?
What is semantic
200
How much can short term memory store and for how long/
What is 7 items for 20 seconds
200
Which type of interference is old memories preventing new ones?
What is proactive interference
200
For what two reasons might false memories form?
What is incorrect reconstruction of events and accepting suggestions
200
What word means the same as the ability to learn, retain, and remember information?
What is memory
300
What is effortful processing?
What is encoding that requires attention and conscious effort
300
What are the two types of explicit memory?
What is semantic and episodic
300
What is the most effective way to improve memory?
What is self-testing
300
What is a type of short term memory that lasts about 40 seconds?
What is eidetic/photographic memory
300
Who was the leading researcher of the eyewitness studies?
Who is Elizabeth Loftus
400
What is selective attention?
What is deciding what to focus on
400
How do hierarchies organize information?
What is from less specific to more specific
400
What is the effect that is used by relating information to oneself to make it easier to remember?
What is the self-reference effect
400
What is believing in false information and incorporating it as true into a memory?
What is the misinformation effect
400
What memories are well remembered?
What is stressful memories
500
What is automatic processing?
What is unconsciously encoding information about space, time, and frequency
500
Where is implicit memory processed?
What is in the cerebellum
500
What is the different between positive and negative transfer?
What is positive transfer uses old information to learn new information while in negative transfer old information makes learning new information hard
500
What percentage of elementary school children have a photographic memory?
What is 2-15%
500
What three things is Hermann Ebbinghaus known for?
What is the spacing effect, the retention curve, and the forgetting curve