Chapter 6

Question 1

memory

Answer 1

ability to recall things we have experienced, imagined, and learned

Question 2

icon

Answer 2

what is remembered of sight

Question 3

echo

Answer 3

what is remembered of hearing

Question 4

sensory register

Answer 4

entry points for sensory info

Question 5

stages of memory

Answer 5

encoding, storage, retrieval

Question 6

encoding

Answer 6

info is converted for storage

Question 7

storage

Answer 7

info is retained in memory

Question 8

retrieval

Answer 8

info retrieved from memory - recall

Question 9

stm

Answer 9

briefly store and processes selected information from sensory registers

Question 10

how much can stm remember at once

Answer 10

5-9

Question 11

chunking

Answer 11

breaking up info for easier handling by stm

Question 12

recognition

Answer 12

ability to remember something with assistence

Question 13

recall

Answer 13

ability to remember something without help

Question 14

serial position effect

Answer 14

tendency to remember items at beginning and end of lists

Question 15

tip of the tongue

Answer 15

knowing but not recalling

Question 16

schemas

Answer 16

set of beliefs or expectations based on past experience

Question 17

rote rehersal

Answer 17

retaining info by repeating it until memorized

Question 18

ltm

Answer 18

ability to store info over a longer period of time

Question 19

types of ltm

Answer 19

episodic, semantic, procedural, emotional

Question 20

episodic memory

Answer 20

personal memories

Question 21

semantic memory

Answer 21

facts

Question 22

procedural memory

Answer 22

skills and habits

Question 23

emotional memory

Answer 23

responses to stimuli (likes and dislikes, etc.)

Question 24

superior autobiographical memory/hyporthymesia

Answer 24

remember everything from 11-14 on

Question 25

childhood amnesia

Answer 25

inability to recall information from before 2 years old

Question 26

eidetic imagery

Answer 26

can remember event in very vivid detail; more common in children

Question 27

mnemonic

Answer 27

technique that makes material easier to remember

Question 28

flashbulb memory

Answer 28

occurs as result of highly significant event, and the event is printed on the brain like a photograph, usually emotionally connected

Question 29

decay theory

Answer 29

passage of time causes forgetting

Question 30

interference

Answer 30

info from one source causes us to forget info from another source

Question 31

retroactive interference

Answer 31

process where new information interferes with info already in memory

Question 32

proactive interference

Answer 32

info already in memory interferes with new info

Question 33

amnesia

Answer 33

memory loss due to physical or psychological trauma

Question 34

retrograde amnesia

Answer 34

forgetting events directly before an accident

Question 35

anterograde amnesia

Answer 35

inability to recall events immediately after and accident

Question 36

global amnesia

Answer 36

forgetting skills/abilities

Question 37

dissociative fugue

Answer 37

type of amnesia where you just forget who you are

Question 38

hippocampus

Answer 38

transfer memories from short to long term memory

Question 39

consolidation

Answer 39

how hippocampus transfers memories, during sleep

Question 40

amygdala

Answer 40

in charge of strong emotion

Question 41

temporal lobes

Answer 41

store long term episodic and semantic memories

Question 42

information processing model

Answer 42

how we encode, store, and retrieve information

Question 43

elaborate rehersal

Answer 43

linking new STM to familiar things in the LTM

Question 44

explicit memory

Answer 44

episodic and semantic. aware of memories and can describe

Question 45

implicit memory

Answer 45

procedural and emotional. know but can’t describe

Question 46

LTP

Answer 46

long term potentiation. change in synapse function to increase neural efficiency; how info is stored