What?!?!
Name that term
Easy Peasy
Name that term pt.2
Definitions
100

What is the difference retroactive and proactive interference?

Retroactive interference is when you are only able to remember the new memories and can’t remember the old memories. Where as proactive interference is when you only remember the old memories and not the new memories.

100

What is the failure to recall information without memory cues?

Cue dependent memory


100

What age does infantile amnesia affect?


Before 2 years old


100

BLANK is known as small pieces of set info that are bound together to create a meaningful whole later on in memory


Chunking


100

What is Herman Ebbinghaus’s retention/forgetting curve?

The decline of memory overtime when there is no attempt to retain it.

200

What did Elizabeth Loftus prove when she experimented with faces, car accidents, and stop signs?

She proved the misinformation effects. 


200

What type of memory is deliberate, intentional, and conscious?

Explicit memories

200

 What role does the cerebellum play in memory?


To process procedural memories


200

What is the inability to form new memories called?

 Anterograde Amnesia

200

What is George Millers “Magic Number 7”?

 A concept which states that the limit of storable information is 7 (+/-2)


300

What is the difference between effortful processing, and automatic processing?

Effortful requires attention, automatic is unconscious.

300

What is a mnemonic technique in which the items to be remembered are converted into mental images and associated with specific positions or locations?


Method of Loki

300

What role does the hippocampus play in memory?


Helps process and retrieve two types of memory, declarative memories, and spatial relationships.


300

If you took a multiple choice test, what measurement of memory would be used?  

Recognition

300

Deep Processing is defined as…


Elaboration rehearsal which involves a more meaningful analysis of info and leads to better recall


400

 How is discerning true and false memories similar to children’s eyewitness recall?

 In discerning true and false memories one cannot remember if the memory is a true memory or if it was a dream or a lie or a made up imagination that we made, and with kids it is the same way.  


400

Some information stored in the brain gradually fades away. What is this called?

Storage Decay


400

Which items in a list would you recall the best because of serial position effect?

The first and last items


400

The more you are exposed to a stimulus, the less sensitive you are to it. What is this called?

Adaptive Sense

400

What is iconic memory?

Sensory memory of visual stimuli

500

What are ways that can help one remember what they studied?

Rehearsing repeatedly, deep processing, retrieval cues, mnemonic devices (making up a story to help remember), sleeping and testing their knowledge.

500

Which two terms are under the umbrella term of declarative memories?


Semantic Memory and Episodic Memory


500

How does sleep help improve memory?

 If you study before sleeping it minimizes proactive and retroactive interference and the brain processes your memories when in stage for of sleep.

500

If you are in a good mood you are more likely to recall good memories and if you are in a bad mood you are more likely to recall bad ones. What is this an example of?

Mood Congruent Memory 


500

What is Encoding Failure?

A breakdown in the process of getting information in to the cognitive system