Ch.7 Memory 3

Question 1

nonsense syllables

Answer 1

consonant-vowel-consonant arrangements that are not words

Question 2

forgetting curve

Answer 2

made by Herman Ebbinghaus, much too steep

Question 3

decay theory

Answer 3

predict what you forget because of time

Question 4

interference theory

Answer 4

people forget information because of competition from other information

Question 5

proactive interference

Answer 5

can’t remember new information because old information blocks it

Question 6

retroactive interference

Answer 6

can’t remember old information because new information blocks it

Question 7

Encoding specificity principle

Answer 7

remember better when the test environment is more similar to when you learned it (mood, context, state)

Question 8

long term potentiation

Answer 8

increase in neural pathways after learning more and more about certain things

Question 9

pruning

Answer 9

getting rid of neural pathways

Question 10

retrograde amnesia

Answer 10

loss of memory before event that caused it

Question 11

anterograde amnesia

Answer 11

unable to retain future memories

Question 12

retrospective memory

Answer 12

memory from past

Question 13

prospective memory

Answer 13

remember stuff “to do” in the future

Question 14

serial-position effect

Answer 14

order of information effects how we remember it

Question 15

primacy effect

Answer 15

remember first word

Question 16

recency effect

Answer 16

remember last word

Question 17

method of loci

Answer 17

relating familiar stimuli to something you are trying to remember