Chapter 6 (Memory)

Question 1

Encoding

Answer 1

Paying attention/ transforming info that can be stored into memory

Question 2

Retrieval

Answer 2

Stored info brought to mind

Encode ➨ Store ➨ Retrieval

Question 3

Sensory Memory

Answer 3

Stuff we see, hear, feel: very brief

Question 4

Short Term Memory (STM)

Answer 4

Stuff we remember for a long time

Question 5

Long Term Memory (LTM)

Answer 5

Stuff we remember for a short time

Question 6

Nondecarative Memory

Answer 6

LTM subsystem

Question 7

Declarative

Answer 7

Facts + info personal info, experiences,

Question 8

Episodic

Answer 8

Memory from personal experience

Question 9

Encoding failure

Answer 9

To forget things

Question 10

Consolidation Failure

Answer 10

Failure to make new permanent memories

Question 11

Decay

Answer 11

When memories are gone

Question 12

Interference

Answer 12

Mixing up info

Question 13

Proactive Interference

Answer 13

When old memories causes us to forget new info

Question 14

Motivated Forgetting

Answer 14

Repression

Question 15

Retrieval Failure

Answer 15

Unable to remember

Question 16

How to remember Shite

Answer 16

Organize = i.e Chapters
Over learn = repetition
Spacing = Not cramming
Active learning = learning by rule (not ROTE, memory)
Mnemonics = Rhymes, i.e. Columbus sailed…
Chunking: I.e. TVCIACBCYMCA = TV CIA CBC YMCA
Memories are reconstructions

Question 17

Infinite amnesia

Answer 17

When memories are all gorn

Question 18

Flashbulb Memory

Answer 18

Learning through trauma

Question 19

Eidetic memory

Answer 19

photographic memory

Question 20

Primary/Recency effect

Answer 20

First and last info learned

Question 21

Hippocampus

Answer 21

The part of the brain that runs memory

Question 22

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 22

Inability to make new memories

Question 23

Improving memory

Answer 23

Concentration
Minimize interference
Allow enough time to study
Break down large information
Rephrase materiel in own words
Test ones self
Review
Just show up

Question 24

Semantic memory

Answer 24

Semantic memory refers to a portion of long-term memory that processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experience