Chapter 5 Memory Flashcards
What do we mean when we say that memories must be encoded?
It must be put in a form that the brain can register
The way psychologist talk about and studied memory was changed by the invention of
The computer
Imagine you had a string of 20 one digit numbers to remember. The best way to accomplish this task, which requires increasing the capacity of short-term memory, is through the technique of
Chunking
About how many items can be held short-term memory?
Seven
In an experiment, people spent a few minutes in an office. They were then asked to recall what they had seen. They were most likely to recall objects that
Fit into their existing schema of an office
Patients with Alzheimer’s disease find it almost impossible to produce
Conditioned responses
The best way to keep items in short-term memory for an indefinite length of time is to
Rehearse
Long-term memory is organized as a
Complex network of associations
You remember a list of unrelated words by associating them, one at a time, with images of a button, a shoe, a tree, a door, a hive, sticks, Heaven, a dotted line, and a hen. What pneumonic technique are you using?
Peg word
Long-term memories appear to be stored in the
Cortex
Alzheimer’s disease associated with the loss of
Personality
