Memory Processes
This is the process of creating a permanent record of information.
What is storage?
This type of long-term memory contains information about events we have personally experienced.
What is episodic memory?
This memory error occurs when you confuse the source of your information.
What is source amnesia?
When trying to remember information by associating it with personal experiences, you are utilizing this memory model.
What is the self-reference effect?
These three countries will host the next World Cup.
What are Mexico, United States, and Canada?
The type of memory that holds about seven bits of information before it is forgotten or stored.
What is short term or working memory?
When remembering the meanings of words, concepts, and language-based knowledge, you are utilizing this type of memory.
What is semantic memory?
When you keep on using your old Canvas password because it is difficult to remember your new password.
What is proactive interference?
When you just read, but don't try to understand the meaning of the material, you won't remember it as well. This type of processing would help you remember your reading better.
What is deep processing?
Rice, in Argentina.
What is arroz?
The type of retention measure tested in a multiple choice question
What is recognition?
When you engage in a skill you've mastered, like riding a bike or playing an instrument, you are relying on this type of long-term memory.
What is procedural memory?
Imagine you witness a car accident, and later, due to exposure to media reports, you mistakenly remember seeing a traffic light where there wasn't one, demonstrating the impact of this type of memory error.
What is the misinformation effect?
Suppose you are studying for an exam by repeating the information over and over again. According to memory models, you are engaged in this type of processing.
What is rehearsal?
Who is Kim Kardashian?
When you can remember the last few words that your Dad said when he was lecturing you but you were zoned out, you are using this memory process
What is echoic memory?
This kind of memory is made via effortful processing and uses the hippocampus
What is an explicit memory?
a process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again.
What is reconsolidation?
Never Eat Soggy Waffles.
What is a mnemonic device?
This ancient Roman city was destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE
What is Pompeii?
The concepts of sensory, short-term, and long-term memory with the three-system model proposed by these psychologists.
Who are Atkinson and Shiffrin?
When you remember that you need to go Conference next week to make up a quiz, you are using this type of memory.
What is prospective memory?
Unless you occasionally recall the information that you studied for unit tests this semester, this process will occur and you will forget what you studied before the final.
What is storage decay?
Jay is a student preparing for a biology exam, specifically focusing on cellular processes. Instead of cramming all the information the night before, Jay decides to study for 30 minutes each day for a week. By doing so, Jay is using this memory-enhancing strategy that involves studying across time in short durations.
What is distributed rehearsal?
This is the most abundant element in the universe.
What is hydrogen?