Chapter 1
Functions to record, store, and process information.
What is MEMORY?
A lobe of the brain that is involved with source monitoring.
A method that helps with serial recall.
What is CHAINING?
A component of working memory that helps with task-switching through subvocalized self-instruction.
What is the PHONOLOGICAL LOOP?
At high levels of practice, further repetition does not contribute to improvement in a skill
What is PERFORMANCE PLATEAU?
A model of memory that includes a sensory, short-term and long-term memory store.
What is the MODAL MODEL?
A part of the brain within the temporal lobe that is associated with encoding.
What is the HIPPOCAMPUS?
What is the PRIMACY effect?
A working memory component that acts as an attentional controller.
What is the CENTRAL EXECUTIVE?
The advantage of spacing trials across a period of time than to mass them together into a single learning block.
What is the DISTRIBUTED PRACTICE EFFECT?
What is SEMANTIC MEMORY?
A type of memory associated with planning for the future?
What is PROSPECTIVE MEMORY?
Error in recall of verbal material when items are similar in sound
What is the PHONOLOGICAL SIMILARITY EFFECT?
A model of working memory developed by Cowan that proposes there is a central executive, focus of attention, and long-term memory.
What is the EMBEDDED-PROCESSES MODEL?
The hypothesis that people’s attention is captured by information encountered long-time ago relative to something recent to explain the distributed practice effect.
What is the DEFICIENT PROCESSING HYPOTHESIS?
Another term for NONDECLARATIVE MEMORY.
A brain imaging tool that involves the injection of a radioactive substance.
What is a Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) scan?
The inability to transfer to an auditory code due to disruption of the articulatory rehearsal mechanism.
What is ARTICULATORY SUPPRESSION?
An attentional control mechanism of the Central Executive.
What is the SUPERVISORY ATTENTIONAL SYSTEM?
A neurotransmitter that is released into the hippocampus and helps to facilitate learning.
What is DOPAMINE?
A method of study that helps to examine the duration of iconic memory.
What is Sperling's DELAYED PARTIAL REPORT METHOD?
Brain area that processes emotions.
What is the AMYGDALA?
What is a MODALITY-INDEPENDENT feature?
A model that focuses on the sharing of attentional resources for
a) maintenance of information in working memory
b) processing information in working memory
What is the TIME-BASED RESOURCE SHARING MODEL?
Liking or disliking something is influenced by its consistent association with a pleasant or unpleasant stimulus
What is EVALUATIVE CONDITIONING?