Chapter 7

Question 0

Episodic memory

Answer 0

Memory of a specific event

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

Recollect prior experiences and Information and skills learned in the past

Question 2

Flash bulb memory

Answer 2

Events so important we remember every detail

Question 3

Semantic memory

Answer 3

General information that we know

Question 4

Implicit memory

Answer 4

Not clearly stated

Question 5

Encoding

Answer 5

Translation of information into a form in which it can be used

Question 6

Visual code

Answer 6

Form mental picture

Question 7

Acoustic

Answer 7

Using sound to remember

Question 8

Semantic codes

Answer 8

Making sense out of something (try to find meaning)

Question 9

Storage

Answer 9

Maintenance of encoded information over time

Question 10

Maintenance of Rehearsal

Answer 10

Mechanical or rote repetition of information to keep from forgetting it

Question 11

Elaborative Rehearsal

Answer 11

Relate new info to something you already know

Question 12

Organizational Systems

Answer 12

Filing system used to arrange learned information for later retrieval

Question 13

Filing Error

Answer 13

Information filed incorrectly

Question 14

Retrieval

Answer 14

Locating stored information and returning it to conscious thought

Question 15

Context dependent memory

Answer 15

Memories that come back to you in the place they took place

Question 16

State dependent memory

Answer 16

Memories that return because the original

Question 17

On the tip of the tongue

Answer 17

Feeling that you know something you just can’t retrieve

Question 18

Sensory Memory

Answer 18

Immediate, initial recording of data that enters through senses

Question 19

Memory Trace

Answer 19

Visual impression that decays within a fraction of a second

Question 20

Iconic Memory

Answer 20

Accurate, photographic images

Question 21

Eidetic Memory

Answer 21

Ability to remember visual stimuli over long periods of time

Question 22

Echoic memory

Answer 22

Mental pictures of sounds

Question 23

Short Term Memory

Answer 23

Working memory; storage for information after the memory trace fades away

Question 24

Primacy effect

Answer 24

Tendency to recall the initial items in a series

Question 25

Recency effect

Answer 25

Tendency to recall the last items in a series

Question 26

Chunking

Answer 26

Organizing information into familiar or manageable parts

Question 27

George Miller

Answer 27

Average person can hold a list of 7items

Question 28

Interference

Answer 28

New information appears in short term memory and takes the place of what was already there

Question 29

Long term memory

Answer 29

Last stage; holds information for extended period of time

Question 30

Schemas

Answer 30

The mental representations we form of the world by organizing bits of information into knowledge

Question 31

Forgetting

Answer 31

Can occur at any stage

Question 32

Displaced

Answer 32

Information hat is crowded out

Question 33

Recognition

Answer 33

Identifying objects of events that have been encountered before

Question 34

Recall

Answer 34

Being something back to mind

Question 35

Relearning

Answer 35

Learn information again that was already known

Question 36

Interference

Answer 36

New information disrupts new information placed in memory

Question 37

Decay

Answer 37

Fading away of a memory over time

Question 38

Repression

Answer 38

Forgetting something on purpose without knowing it

Question 39

Amnesia

Answer 39

Severe memory loss often caused by trauma

Question 40

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 40

Forgetting the period leading up to a traumatic event

Question 41

Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 41

Memory loss after a traumatic event

Lose ability to form new memories

Question 42

Infantile Amnesia

Answer 42

Not remembering events before the age of three