Ch8-P239-249

Question 1

Memory?

Answer 1

The mental capacity to encode, store and retrieve information.

Question 2

explicit use of memory?

Answer 2

A conscious effort to encode or recover information through memory processes

Question 3

Implicit use of memory?

Answer 3

the availability of information through memory processes without conscious effort to encode or recover information

Question 4

Declarative Memory?

Answer 4

Memory for information such as facts and events

Question 5

Procedural Memory?

Answer 5

Memory for how things get done; the way perceptual, cognitive and motor skills are acquired, retained and used.

Question 6

Encoding?

Answer 6

The process by which a mental representation is formed in memory

Question 7

Storage?

Answer 7

The retention of encoded material over time.

Question 8

Retrieval?

Answer 8

The recovery of stored information from memory

Question 9

Iconic memory?

Answer 9

Memory system in the visual domain that allows large amounts of information to be stored for very brief durations.

Question 10

Short Term Memory (STM)?

Answer 10

A memory process associated with preservation of recent experiences and with retrieval of information from long term memory.

Question 11

Chunking?

Answer 11

The process of taking single items of information and recording them on the basis of similarity or another organising principle.

Question 12

Working Memory?

Answer 12

A memory resource that is used to accomplish tasks such as reasoning and language comprehension.

Question 13

Long term memory (LTM)?

Answer 13

Memory processes associated with the preservation of information for retrieval at any later time.

Question 14

Retrieval cue?

Answer 14

An internal or external generated stimuli available to help with the retrieval of a memory

Question 15

Recall?

Answer 15

A method of retrieval in which an individual is required to reproduce the information previously presented.

Question 16

Recognition?

Answer 16

A method of retrieval in which an individual is required to identify stimuli as having been experienced before.

Question 17

Episodic memory?

Answer 17

A long term memory for autobiographical events and the contexts in which they occurred.

Question 18

Semantic memory?

Answer 18

A generic, categorical memory, such as the meanings of words and concepts.

Question 19

Encoding specificity?

Answer 19

the principle that subsequent retrieval of information is enhanced if cues received at the time of recall are consistent with those present at the time of encoding.