Ch.7 Memory 2

Question 1

memory consolidation

Answer 1

moving info into more durable memory code, happens in REM sleep

Question 2

working memory

Answer 2

another name for short-term memory, 7+/-2, last 20-30 sec

Question 3

chunk

Answer 3

a group of familiar stimuli stored in a single unit used to help remember more things

Question 4

schema

Answer 4

organized cluster of knowledge about something taken from past experiences (stereotype)

Question 5

distributed practice

Answer 5

learning something over a period of time

Question 6

massed practice

Answer 6

learning something all at once

Question 7

flashbulb memory

Answer 7

a very strong memory of a very monumental occasion remembered by many

Question 8

hippocampus, amygdala, corpus callosum

Answer 8

used in memory, part of the limbic system

Question 9

limbic system

Answer 9

link emotions and memory together

Question 10

misinformation effect

Answer 10

adding information after a memory was made that changes how you remember it

Question 11

reality monitoring

Answer 11

can’t remember if you only thought about doing something or if you actually did it

Question 12

source monitoring

Answer 12

when you don’t know where you got a certain piece of information