Chapter 6

Question 1

Explicit Memory

Answer 1

Relates to anything where you have to pause and think for a while(search for)

Question 2

Episodic memory

Answer 2

Any memory that relates to YOUR OWN LIFE

Question 3

Semantic Memory

Answer 3

Relates to something you have learned at some point

Question 4

Implicit Memory

Answer 4

-Think of this as any of the things you’re able to do without having to actively think about it.

-tying shoes
-automatic skills,physical activities

Question 5

Retrospective memory

Answer 5

recalling of information that has been previously learned (episodic, semantic, and implicit memories)

Question 6

Prospective memory

Answer 6

remembering to do things in the future
(paying bills)

Question 7

Encoding

Answer 7

Act of inputting info into memory

Question 8

Storage

Answer 8

Place where info is retained in memory

Question 9

Retrieval

Answer 9

process of accessing info in memory and pulling it into consciousness

Question 10

Iconic Sensory Memory

Answer 10

visual memory

Question 11

Echoic Sensory Memory

Answer 11

sound memory

Question 12

Short-Term Memory (STM)

Answer 12

Information is HELD for brief periods of time.
-2nd stage of memory processing

Question 13

Sensory Memory

Answer 13

Very 1st Stage of Memory: Information enters the nervous system through sensory systems
Iconic Sensory Memory
Echoic Sensory Memory

Question 14

serial position effect

Answer 14

stage of memory that can hold information for up to a minute

Question 15

chunking

Answer 15

Bits of information are combined into meaningful units, or chunks, so more information can be held in short term memory

Question 16

Long-Term Memory (LTM)

Answer 16

The systerm of memory into which information is place to be kept more or less permanently.
-Elaborative Rehearsal

Question 17

flashbulb memory

Answer 17

preserve experiences in detail

Question 18

Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon

Answer 18

feeling that information is stored in memory, but is not easily retrieved

Question 19

context dependent memory

Answer 19

information that is better retrieved in context of when it was received

Question 20

state dependent memory

Answer 20

information that is better retrieved in the physical state or emotional state it was learned

Question 21

relearning

Answer 21

learning something more rapidly the second time, even if we forget

Question 21

relearning

Answer 21

learning something more rapidly the second time, even if we forget

Question 22

Retroactive Interference

Answer 22

Forgetting that occurs when newer memory traces inhibit the retrieval of older memory traces
-EX: moving to new house and then forgetting older address

Question 23

Proactive Interference

Answer 23

Occurs when older memory traces INHIBIT the retrieval of newer memory traces

Question 24

Repression

Answer 24

Type of forgetting proposed by Sigmund Freud in which memories for events, desires, or impulses that we find threatening are pushed into an inaccessible part of the mind called the unconscious

Question 25

Infantil Amnesia:

Answer 25

The ability to forget or remember memories from much before age 3

Question 26

Retrograde Amnesia:

Answer 26

Loss of memory from the past

Question 27

Anterograde Amnesia:

Answer 27

inability to form new long-term memories (declarative memory)

Question 28

long-term potentiation

Answer 28

a persistent increase in synaptic strength following high-frequency stimulation of a chemical synapse
With repetition, the mouse soon learns to locate the platform more quickly.

Question 29

hippocampus

Answer 29

structure in the limbic system, formation of new memories