What is the name of the person who had herpes on the brain causing anterograde & retrograde amnesia.
Clive Wearing
100
What is the name of the psychologist who came up with the "Schemata" theory?
Bartlett (altered stories)
100
The process of putting information into memory
What is encoding?
100
When memory becomes eroded due to lack of use.
What is decay?
100
A mnemonic device where an individual takes a "mental walk" to associate words or parts of speech with familiar places.
What is Loci Method?
200
What is the name of the researcher who is known for studying false memories
Elizabeth Loftus
200
Who came up with the "Memory Model" theory that illustrates the memory process in steps? (two names)
Atkinson & Shiffrin
200
The phenomenon that occurs when you feel like your on the verge of remembering something.
What is the "Tip-of-the-tongue" phenomenon?
200
When items are pushed out of memory by other items (applies to STM and Sensory Memory, not LTM)
What is displacement?
200
A mnemonic device where an association with a word list, a number and a rhyme help with recall.
What is a peg-word association?
300
What is the name of the researcher who studied nonsense words & sounds?
Herman Hebbinghaus
300
Who came up with the idea there are 3 components or systems to working memory: central executive, phonological loop, and visual-spatial loop?
Allen Baddeley
300
Another name for short-term memory.
What is "working memory"?
300
Type of amnesia when the patient cannot form new memories after a brain injury.
What is anterograde amnesia?
300
Three types of memory according to the memory model.
What is sensory, short-term, and long-term memory?
400
What is the individual (initials) who had epileptic seizures leading to surgery of the hippocampus that lead to anterograde amnesia?
Study of HM
400
The name of the theory that states memory recall is better at the beginning and the end.
What is the primacy-recency effect?
400
Raw information from an instant to several seconds.
What is sensory memory?
400
Organized knowledge structures stored in memory that are used to guide comprehension and memory. These structures can sometimes cause faulty memory recall.
What is a schema?
400
A cognitive method of studying brain function and memory that shows a three dimensional picture of the brain, it can detect changes in use of oxygen in the blood when areas of the brain are more active than others.
What is an MRI?
500
What is the name of the woman who had false memories related to her childhood of cults and other horrific events?
Nadene Cool
500
The theory that emphasizes shallow & deep processing.
What is the "Levels of Processing Theory"
500
A type of long-term memory where facts and experiences we consciously know and can verbalize are remembered.
What is explicit (declaritive) memory?
500
Methods used to improve encoding and create better retrieval cues by forming associations or images, which improve recall.
What is a mnemonic method?
500
The name of the model that assumes that the brain processes information the same way as a computer model, with input, transformation, process and output.