Warm Up
Memory
Memory
Daily Double
All or Nothing
100

The recalling and retaining of information and past experiences. 

What is memory?

100

When your brain can work on both two types of processing at the same time. 

What is parallel processing? 

100

Memory that normally lasts about ¼ second in the visual register. 

What is iconic memory?

100

The technique that humans use to hold larger amounts of information at once to remember something. This allows people to take smaller bits of information and combine them into more meaningful, and therefore more memorable, wholes.

What is chunking?

100
Two types of implicit memory.

What is procedural and emotional?

200

The 3 steps of the IPM

What is encoding, storage, and retrieval? 

200
Processing one stimuli while ignoring the other. 

What is selective attention?

200

When our memory for past events is altered after exposure to misleading information. 

What is the misinformation effect?

200

 Two types of explicit memory

What is episodic and semantic memory?

200

Memories for personal events in a specific time and place

What is episodic memory?

300

The hard drive of memory 

What is storage?

300

Processing for meaning.  Relating it to past experiences.  This is effortful and requires one’s attention. 

What is deep processing?

300

What is it called when people normally only pay attention to only a small portion of incoming information.

What is selective attention?

300

The passage of time causes forgetting.The longer information is not accessed, increases the chances of forgetting it. What theory is this? 

What is decay theory?

300

People tend to recall the first items  and last items in a list. 

What is the serial positioning effect?

400

 Knitting a scarf while your mind goes elsewhere is an example of what type of processing? 

What is automatic processing?

400

When most people excel at remembering personally relevant information.

What is the self-reference effect?

400

DAILY DOUBLE

Memory that can hold whatever is rehearsed in 1.5 to 2 seconds. 

What is short-term memory?

400

Memory for general facts and concepts not linked to a specific time

What is semantic memory?

400

Occurs when you are being tested on new information  and old information interferes proper retrieval.

What is proactive interference?

500
Processing that is used consciously to process new information. 

What is effortful processing? 

500

Five things that may affect your memory.

What is culture, attention, distractions, time, and meaning?

500

Memory that can last up to several seconds in the auditory register. 

What is echoic memory?

500

Occurs when you are being tested on old information and new information interferes with proper retrieval.

What is retroactive interference?

500

The phenomenon of failing to retrieve a word or term from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is almost there.

What is tip of the tongue?