Chapter 7

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

The ability to take in solidify store, and use information. Also the store of what has been learned and remembered.

Question 2

Sensory memory

Answer 2

The part of memory that holds information and it’s original sensory form for a brief period of time usually about half a second or less

Question 3

Short term or working memory

Answer 3

Short-term memory is the part of memory that temporarily for 2 to 30 seconds stores a limited amount of information

Memory is the part of memory required to attend to and solve a problem at hand

Question 4

Chunking v Rehearsal

Answer 4

Chunking is breaking down a list of items to be remembered into smaller set of meaningful units

Rehearsal is the process of repeatedly practicing materials so that it enters long-term memory

Question 5

Serial position effect

Answer 5

The tendency to have better recall for items and a list according to their position in the list.

Primary effect: recalling items at the beginning of the list

Recency effect: recalling items at the end of the list

Question 6

Long term memory

Answer 6

The part of memory that has the capacity to store a vast amount of information for as little as 30 seconds to as long as a lifetime

Question 7

Implicit memory

Answer 7

I kind of memory made up of knowledge based on previous experience, such as skills that we perform automatically once we have mastered them.

Question 8

Explicit memory

Answer 8

Knowledge that consist of a conscious recall of facts and events, also known as declarative memory

Question 9

Priming

Answer 9

A kind of implicit memory that arises when recall is improved by earlier exposure to the same or similar stimuli

Question 10

Semantic memory

Answer 10

A form of memory that recalls facts in general knowledge, such as what we learned in school

Question 11

Encoding

Answer 11

The process by which Sabrina attends to takes in and integrates new information, the first stage of long-term memory formation

Question 12

Automatic processing

Answer 12

Encoding of information that occurs with little effort or conscious attention to task.

Episodic memory involves this kind of automatic processing

Question 13

Effortful processing

Answer 13

Encoding of information that occurs with careful attention and conscious effort.

Needs rehearsal

Question 14

Retrieval

Answer 14

The recovery of information stored in memory; the fourth stage of long term memory

Question 15

Flashbulb memory

Answer 15

A detailed snapshot memory for what we were doing when we first heard of a major public and emotionally charged event

Question 16

Proactive interference

Answer 16

Disruption of memory because previously learned information interferes with the learning of new information

Question 17

Retroactive interference

Answer 17

Disruption of memory because new experiences are information causes people to forget previously learned experiences or information

Question 18

Forgetting curve

Answer 18

A graphic depiction of how recall steadily declines overtime

Question 19

Amnesia

Answer 19

Anterograde: inability to remember events and experiences that occur after an injury or the onset of disease

Retrograde: inability to recall events or experiences that happened before the onset of injury or disease

Question 20

Repression

Answer 20

An unconscious form of forgetting that keeps threatening thoughts, feelings, or impulses out of consciousness

Question 21

Motivated forgetting

Answer 21

The idea that people can block out or forget upsetting or traumatic memories because there’s a motivation to do so

Question 22

False memories

Answer 22

Memories for events that never happened, but we’re suggested by someone or something

Question 23

Recovered memories

Answer 23

A memory from a real event that wasn’t coded stored, but not retrieved for a long period of time until some later event brings it suddenly to consciousness