Memories
How many items does your short-term memory hold?
5-9 items OR 7 items are both correct
Faster
How long do items stay in your short-term memory for?
15-30 seconds
How much information can your long-term memory hold?
Unlimited amount
Memories that fade due to the passage of time. This is called memory _______.
decay
Memory aid which involves grouping alike words together
Chunking
The process of taking sensory information and forming it into useable information.
Encoding
The 3 parts of the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model are _________.
Encoding, storage, and recall
A progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions.
Alzheimer's
Filtering out useless information so we can focus on what is important
Selective attention
When information fails to be stored in your long-term memory this is called a(n) ________________.
Encoding failure
Repetition of information, like a phone number, over and over again, is an example of ___________.
maintenance rehearsal
You see the term Battle of Stalingrad on the board. You know you learned it before but cannot recall any specific information. What is this an example of?
Recognition
This type of memory is lost within a few seconds if you are not paying attention to it.
Sensory memory
You walk into a bakery and smell chocolate chip cookies an immediately remember all the times you baked cookies with Nana. The smell acted as a _____.
You remember the events of a bad car accident or the events of your wedding day because they are emotionally significant
Flashbulb memories
When you remember the last words in a list better than the first few words
Recency effect
PEMDAS, singing the ABC song to help children learn, and NASA are all examples of __________.
mnemonic devices
This man had a piece of his hippocampus removed and could no longer form new memories
Henry Molaison
Recall
The tendency of misleading information presented after an event to alter the memories of the event itself
Misinformation effect
If you cannot form new memories, you are suffering from _____________ amnesia.
anterograde
When given a list, you remember the first items in the list better than the last items.
Primacy effect
If you cannot remember events from your past you are suffering from __________ amnesia.
retrograde
In your reading, this psychologist conducted many experiments on the validity of eye witness testimony
Elizabeth Loftus