Memories
Remembering
Recalling
Forgetting
Recollection
100

How many items does your short-term memory hold?

5-9 items OR 7 items are both correct 

100
Relearning means you learn something ________ the second time around. 

Faster

100

How long do items stay in your short-term memory for?

15-30 seconds

100

How much information can your long-term memory hold?

Unlimited amount

100

Memories that fade due to the passage of time. This is called memory _______.

decay

200

Memory aid which involves grouping alike words together

Chunking 

200

The process of taking sensory information and forming it into useable information. 

Encoding 

200

The 3 parts of the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model are _________.

Encoding, storage, and recall 

200

A progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions.

Alzheimer's 

200

Filtering out useless information so we can focus on what is important

Selective attention

300

When information fails to be stored in your long-term memory this is called a(n) ________________.

Encoding failure 

300

Repetition of information, like a phone number, over and over again, is an example of ___________. 

maintenance rehearsal  

300

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 

300

This type of memory is lost within a few seconds if you are not paying attention to it. 

Sensory memory

300

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 _____.

retrieval cue
400

You remember the events of a bad car accident or the events of your wedding day because they are emotionally significant 

Flashbulb memories 

400

When you remember the last words in a list better than the first few words

Recency effect

400

PEMDAS, singing the ABC song to help children learn, and NASA are all examples of __________.

mnemonic devices 

400

This man had a piece of his hippocampus removed and could no longer form new memories

Henry Molaison 

400
You are presented information and right away you know the answer.

Recall

500

 The tendency of misleading information presented after an event to alter the memories of the event itself

Misinformation effect

500

If you cannot form new memories, you are suffering from _____________ amnesia. 

anterograde 

500

When given a list, you remember the first items in the list better than the last items.

Primacy effect

500

If you cannot remember events from your past you are suffering from __________ amnesia. 

retrograde 

500

In your reading, this psychologist conducted many experiments on the validity of eye witness testimony

Elizabeth Loftus