Ch 10: Memory

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

Refers to the capacity to retain info and also to the structure that accounts for this capacity

Question 2

Source Misattribution

Answer 2

The inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from the info you learned about an event elsewhere

Question 3

3 Factors Influencing Eye Witness Testimony

Answer 3

1. Cross Race identification
2. Misleading Info
3. Question-Wording

Question 4

Explicit Memory

Answer 4

The conscious, intentional recollection of an event or item of info

Question 5

Recall

Answer 5

The ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material

Question 6

Recognition

Answer 6

The ability to identify previously encountered material

Question 7

Implicit Memory

Answer 7

Unconscious retention in memory, evidenced by the effect of prior experience or previously encountered info on current thoughts/actions

Question 8

Priming

Answer 8

A person reads/ listens to info and is later tested to see whether the info affects performance on another task

Question 9

Three Box Model Of Memory

Answer 9

1. Sensory Memory: Fleeting Impression
2. Short Term Memory: Memory’s Scratchpad
3. Long Term Memory: Memory’s Storage System

Question 10

Contents of Long Term Memory

Answer 10

1. Procedural Memories: “Knowing How” memories for the performance of actions or skills
2. Declarative Memories: “Knowing That” Memories of facts, rules, concepts, and events
   - Semantic: general knowledge
   - Episodic: a personal recollection

Question 11

Where are Memories Made?

Answer 11

1. Cortex
2. Frontal Lobe
3. Amygdala
4. Hippocampus
5. Cerebellum

Question 12

Encoding

Answer 12

The process by which we place things that we experience into memory. Unless info is encoded it cant be remembered.

Question 13

4 Retrieval Strategies

Answer 13

1. Mnemonics
2. Maintenance rehearsal
3. Elaborative Rehearsal
4. Retrieval Practice

Question 14

Reason Why We Forget

Answer 14

1. Decay Theory
2. Replacement Theory
3. Interference
4. Cue Dependent Forgetting
5. Amnesia

Question 15

Decay Theory

Answer 15

Info in memory eventually disappears if it’s not accessed. Applies to short term better than long term

Question 16

Replacement Theory

Answer 16

New info entering memory can wipe out old info

Question 17

Interference:

Answer 17

Similar items interfere with one another
1 Retroactive Interference
2. Proactive Interference

Question 18

Retroactive Interference

Answer 18

When recently learned material interferes with the ability to remember similar material previously stored

Question 19

Proactive Interference

Answer 19

When previously-stored material interferes with the ability to remember similar, more recently learned material

Question 20

Cue Dependent Forgetting

Answer 20

The inability to retrieve info stored in memory because of insufficient cues for recall.
The physical state of the body and mood can affect the ability to remember

Question 21

Amnesia

Answer 21

The partial or complete loss o important personal info