AP Psych Chapter 6 VQ

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

Active System that receives info from the senses, puts that info into a usable form, and organizes it as it stores it away, and then receives the info from storage

Question 2

Encoding

Answer 2

Set of mental operations that people perform on sensory info to convert that info into a form that is usable in the brain’s storage system

Question 3

Storage

Answer 3

Holding onto info for some period of time

Question 4

Retrieval

Answer 4

Getting info that is in storing into a form that can be used

Question 5

Sensory Memory

Answer 5

first stage of memory, the point at which info enters the nervous system through the sensory systems

Question 6

Iconic Mem

Answer 6

Visual sensory memory, lasting only a fraction of a second

Question 7

Eidetic Imagery

Answer 7

Ability to access a visual men for 30+ sec

Question 8

Echoic Imagery

Answer 8

Brief mem of something a person has just heard

Question 9

Short term mem (STM)

Answer 9

Mem sys in which info is held for brief periods of time while being used

Question 10

Selective Attention

Answer 10

Ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input

Question 11

Maintenance Rehearsal

Answer 11

Practice of saying some info to be remembered over and over in one’s head in order to maintain it in short term memory

Question 12

Long term Memory (LTM)

Answer 12

System of men into which all info is placed to be kept more or less permanently

Question 13

Elaborative Rehearsal

Answer 13

A method of transferring info from STM into LTM by making that info meaningful in some way

Question 14

Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 14

Loss of memory from the point of injury/ trauma forward, or the inability to form new LTM’s

Question 15

Implicit mem

Answer 15

Mem that’s not easily brought into conscious awareness, such as procedural memory

Question 16

Declarative Mem

Answer 16

Type of LTM containing info that is conscious and known

Question 17

Semantic Mem

Answer 17

Type of declarative mem containing general knowledge, such as knowledge of language and info learned in formal edu

Question 18

Episodic Mem

Answer 18

Type of Dec. Mem containing personal info not readily available to others, such as daily activities and events

Question 19

Explicit Mem

Answer 19

Mem that is consciously known, such as declarative memory

Question 20

Primacy Effect

Answer 20

Tendency to rememver info at the beginning of a body of information better than the info that follows

Question 21

Recency Effect

Answer 21

Tendency to remember info at the end of a bod of info better than the info at the beginning of it

Question 22

Flashbulb Mems

Answer 22

Type of Auto encoding that occurs because an unexpected event has strong emotional associations for the person remembering it

Question 23

Curve of Forgetting

Answer 23

Graph showing a distinct pattern in which forgetting is very fast within the first hr after learning a list and then tapers off gradually

Question 24

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 24

Loss of mem from the point of some injury or trauma backwards, or loss of memory for the past

Question 25

Infantile Amnesia

Answer 25

Inability to retrieve memories from much before age 3