Chapter 3 (Memory)

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

the retention of
information/learning over time.

Question 2

Serial Position Effect

Answer 2

When your recall is better for first (primacy effect) and last items (recency effect) on a list, but poor for middle items

Question 3

Spacing Effect

Answer 3

We retain information
better when we rehearse over time

Question 4

Difference between effortful and automatic processes

Answer 4

Automatic processes require few attentional resources, but effortful processes use attentional capacity.

Question 5

Flashbulb memory

Answer 5

clear memories of emotionally significant moments or event

Question 6

Misinformation effect

Answer 6

occurs when a memory has been corrupted by misleading information

Question 7

Imagination effect

Answer 7

occurs when repeatedly imaging fake actions and events can create false memories

Question 8

Source amnesia

Answer 8

Involves faulty memory for how, when, or
where information was learned or imagined

Question 9

Children’s eyewitness recall

Answer 9

they’re more easily influenced

Question 10

Types of Long-term memory

Answer 10

explicit, implicit, declarative, episodic and procedural

Question 11

explicit

Answer 11

concerned with recollection of facts and events

Question 12

implicit

Answer 12

doesn’t require any conscious retrieval

Question 13

declarative

Answer 13

recollection of experiences, events, and information used in everyday living

Question 14

episodic

Answer 14

Involves the ability to learn, store, and retrieve information about unique personal experiences that occur in daily life

Question 15

procedural

Answer 15

involved in the performance of different actions and skills

Question 16

Recall vs. recognition

Answer 16

Recognition is the ability to recognize something you have seen before, while recall is the ability to remember something without being prompted

Question 17

Reasons for Forgetting

Answer 17

encoding failure, storage decay, loss of retrieval cues, interference, motivated forgetting (repression)

Question 18

encoding failure

Answer 18

We cannot remember what we have not
encoded

Question 19

storage decay

Answer 19

how information stored in the brain gradually fades away

Question 20

loss of retrieval cues

Answer 20

failure to recall information without memory cues

Question 21

motivated forgetting (repression)

Answer 21

an unconscious form of forgetting