Chapter 6 - Long-Term Memory: Structure

Question 1

Long Term Memory

Answer 1

Information retained for a longer period of time; not currently in use/mind; anything beyond 30 sec (i.e., not in the moment) is thought to be stored in LTM.
Remember different memories throughout life with different degrees of accuracy.

Question 2

Capacity of LTM

Answer 2

10 to the power of 13

Question 3

Memory Bump

Answer 3

memories made in the late teens and early 20s years are remembered more accurately

Question 4

Baddley STM + LTM

Answer 4

STM Lists of words that sound similar cause confusion.
Ex. mad map man.
LTM Lists of words with similar meanings.
Ex. Great, big, good.

Question 5

Explicit Memory

Answer 5

LTM retrieval or performance that entails deliberate recollection or awareness - consciously remembered like information.

Question 6

Implicit Memory

Answer 6

learning from experience does not include conscious remembering or awareness; procedural, priming, classical conditioning

Question 7

Declarative/Direct

Answer 7

describe verbally

Question 8

Nondeclarative/Indirect

Answer 8

other forms of memory that cannot be accessed

Question 9

Priming

Answer 9

exposure to one stimulus influences the next one

Question 10

Primacy Effect

Answer 10

more likely to remember words at the beginning of a sequence

Question 11

Recency Effect

Answer 11

more likely to remember words at the end of a sequence.

Question 12

Sleep

Answer 12

Sleep is thought to improve memory through consolidation of newly learned information by reactivating related brain networks.

Spaced and Massed practice
show short-term gains for mass practice and long-term gains for spaced practice.

Sleep helps with the consolidation of spaced-practice materials and leads to better retention of the information over a longer period of time because the new information is more stable due to the consolidation process after each day of practice.