Ch 6 Memory

Question 1

Repeating something over and over

Answer 1

Maintenance rehearsal

Question 2

Relating information already stored in memory

Answer 2

Elaborative rehearsal

Question 3

Storage of information over time

Answer 3

Memory storage

Question 4

Holds information long enough to be processed further

Answer 4

Sensory memory

Question 5

Auditory sensory memory; helps us experience a constant flow of info, even if the flow is interrupted

Answer 5

Echoic memory

Question 6

Limited capacity system in which info is usually retained for as long as 30 sec

Answer 6

STM

Question 7

Organizing individual stimuli so they will be perceived as larger units

Answer 7

Chunking

Question 8

Rehearses auditory- verbal info

Answer 8

Phonological loops

Question 9

Keeps track of visual info

Answer 9

Visual- spatial sketch pad

Question 10

Integrates info from the phonological loop, visual sketch pad, and LTM

Answer 10

Central executive

Question 11

3 components of working memory

Answer 11

Phonological loops
Visual spatial sketch pad
Central executive

Question 12

Conscious recollection of specific facts and events that can be verbally communicated premature content- a part of your LTM that you’ll never forget

Answer 12

Explicit LTM

Question 13

2 subtypes of explicit memory

Answer 13

Episodic and Semantic

Question 14

Autobiographical memory

Answer 14

Episodic

Question 15

General knowledge about the world

Answer 15

Semantic

Question 16

2 types of implicit LTM

Answer 16

procedural memory and classical conditioning

Question 17

Influence of past experience on later behavior, even without an effort to remember them

Answer 17

Implicit LTM

Question 18

Gradual acquisition of skills

Answer 18

Procedural memory

Question 19

Forming of an association between a neural stimulus and a reflex response

Answer 19

Classical conditioning

Question 20

Facilitated response a stimulus as a result of a recent exposure to the stimulus

Answer 20

Priming

Question 21

A general Mental model or framework for a category of info (stereotype)

Answer 21

Schemas

Question 22

Schema for a particular type of event connection or parallel distributing processing

Answer 22

Scripts

Question 23

Where episodic memory is stored in the brain

Answer 23

Frontal lobes

Question 24

Where emotional memories are stored

Answer 24

Amygdala

Question 25

Where explicit memory is stored

Answer 25

Temporal lobes and hippocampus

Question 26

Where implicit memory is stored

Answer 26

Cerebellum

Question 27

Better recall for first two or three items on a list

Answer 27

Primary effect

Question 28

Better recall for the last two items on a list

Answer 28

Recency effect

Question 29

External info that helps bring stored info to mind

Answer 29

Retrieval cues

Question 30

A retrieval cue can serve as an effective reminder when it helps recreate the specific way in which info was initially encoded

Answer 30

Encoding specific principle to

Question 31

The tendency for info to be better recalled when the person is in the same internal state during encoding and retrieval

Answer 31

State dependent memory