CH 6 Long Term Memory

Question 1

Long term memory

Answer 1

The system that can hold large amounts of information for long periods of time.

Question 2

Serial position curve

Answer 2

Plot of the percentage of words recalled against the position of that word in the list.

Question 3

Recency effect

Answer 3

Enhance memory for words at the end of the list.

Question 4

Coding

Answer 4

The form of which stimuli are represented in the mind. Visual, semantic, phonological forms.

Question 5

Proactive interference

Answer 5

When information learned previously interferes with learning new information.

Question 6

Release from proactive interference

Answer 6

A situation in which conditions occur that eliminate or reduce the decrease in performance caused by proactive interference.

Question 7

Recognition memory

Answer 7

Identifying a stimulus that was encountered earlier. Two stimulus are presented and participants have to choose the one that was presented.

Question 8

Hippocampus

Answer 8

A su cortisol structure that is important for forming long term memories, and also plays a role in remote episodic memories and in short term storage of novel information.

Question 9

Auditory coding

Answer 9

Coding in the mind in the form of auditory sound.

Question 10

Visual coding

Answer 10

Coding in the mind in the form of a visual image.

Question 11

Semantic coding

Answer 11

Coding in the mind in terms of meaning m.

Question 12

Auditory coding LTM

Answer 12

Remembering the exact words in a song.

Question 13

Auditory coding short term

Answer 13

Remembering the sound of letters in a memory test. Not visually a

Question 14

Semantic coding STM

Answer 14

Grouping words into categories rather then random is a form of semantic coding.

Question 15

Mental time travel

Answer 15

According to Tulving, the defining property of the experience of episodic memory, in which a person revisits an experience in there mind.

Question 16

Autobiographical memory

Answer 16

Memory for specific events from a person’s life, which can include both episodic and semantic components.

Question 17

Personal semantic experience

Answer 17

Semantic components of autobiographical memories.

Question 18

Remember/know procedure

Answer 18

Subjects are presented with a stimulus they have encountered before and are asked to indicate remember, or know if the stimulus seems familiar but they don’t remember the stimulus earlier.

Question 19

Semanticization of remote memories

Answer 19

Loss of episodic details for memories of long-ago events.

Question 20

Constructive episodic simulation hypothesis

Answer 20

The hypothesis proposed by Schacter and Addis that episodic memories are extracted and recombined to construct simulations of future events.

Question 21

Explicit memory

Answer 21

Memory that involves conscious recollection of events of facts that we have learned in the past.

Question 22

Implicit memories

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Memories that occur when an experience affects a persons behaviour, even though the person is not aware that he or she has had the experience.

Question 23

Procedural memories

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Memory for how to carry out highly practiced skills. Procedural memory is a type of implicit memory because although people can carry out a task they cannot explain how to do it.

Question 24

Expert-induced amnesia

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Amnesia that occurs because well-learned procedural memories do not require attention.

Question 25

Priming

Answer 25

A change in response to a stimulus caused by the previous presentation of the same or a similar stimulus.

Question 26

Repetition priming

Answer 26

When an initial presentation of a stimulus affects the persons response to the same stimulus when it is presented later.

Question 27

Propaganda effect

Answer 27

People are more likely to rate statements they have read or heard before as being true, just because of prior exposure to the statement.

Question 28

Classical conditioning

Answer 28

1. A neutral stimulus package hay initially does not result in a response and
2. A conditioning stimulus that does result in a response ( Watson founds behaviourism)

Question 29

Encoding

Answer 29

The process of acquiring information and transferring it into memory.