Chapter 6 6.2

Question 1

Encoding specificity

Answer 1

A principle stating that the ability of a cue to aid retrieval depends on how well it taps into information that was originally encoded.

Question 1

Retrieving memories

Answer 1

Recall, recognition, and relearning

Question 2

Retrieval Cues

Answer 2

Stimuli that allow or help people to recall information.

Question 3

Context and state dependence

Answer 3

Memory that is helped or hindered by similarities or differences in a person’s internal state during learning versus recall.

Question 4

Mood congruent memory

Answer 4

Phenomenon that explores how a person is more likely to remember a piece of information or recall a memory when it is consistent or congruent with a particular mood being experienced at the time.

Question 5

Retrieval from semantic memory

Answer 5

A memory process involving word meaning

Question 6

Semantic Network

Answer 6

How your memory is organized

Question 7

Spreading activation

Answer 7

In semantic network theories of memory a principle that explains how information is retrieved.

Question 8

Retrieving incomplete knowledge

Answer 8

You can identify some but not enough to identify the event

Question 9

Constructing memories

Answer 9

Memories may not represent literal happenings since they can be altered by new information, attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs.

Question 10

Relating semantic and episodic memory PDP

Answer 10

The semantic structure of remembered items affects performance in episodic memory tasks.

Question 11

Schemas

Answer 11

Mental representations of categories of objects, places, events, and people. Past representations

Question 12

Herman Eddinghaus

Answer 12

Pioneered the experimental study of memory

Question 13

Relearning, savings

Answer 13

A method for measuring forgetting

Question 14

Decay time

Answer 14

A description of forgetting as the gradual disappearance of information from memory.

Question 15

Interference

Answer 15

The process through which storage or retrieval of information is impaired by the presence of other information

Question 16

Retroactive inhibition

Answer 16

A cause of forgetting whereby new information placed in memory interferences with the ability to recall information already in memory.

Question 17

Proactive inhibition

Answer 17

A cause of forgetting whereby previously learned information interferences with the ability to remember new information.

Question 18

Repressed memories

Answer 18

A painful memory that is said to be kept out of consciousness by psychological processes.

Question 19

False memories

Answer 19

A distorted recollection of an event or most severely, recollection of a event that never actually happened.

Question 20

Evidence - Anecdotes Vs. Data

Answer 20

An informational story or account of events that took place told to communicate information r persuade the listener to believe the teller.