Chapter 7 Flashcards
The psychological terms for taking in information, retaining it, and later getting it back out are ___, ___, ____ .
Encoding, storage, retrieval
The concept of working memory
Clarifies the idea of short term memory by focusing on the active processing that occurs in this stage
Sensory memory may be visual (___ memory) or auditory ( ____memory)
Iconic; echoic
Our short term memory for new information is limited to about ___ items
Seven
Memory aids that visual imagery (such as peg words) or other organizational devices are called
Mnemonics
The hippocampus seems to function as a
The temporary processing site for explicit memories
Amnesia following hippocampus damage typically leaves people unable to learn new facts or recall recent not events. However, they may be able to learn new skills, such as riding a bike, which is an example of ____ memory
Implicit
Long term potentiation refers to
An increase in a cells firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation
A psychologist who asks you to write down as many objects as you can remember having seen a few minutes earlier is testing your
Recall
Specific odors, visual images, emotions, or other associations that help us access a memory are examples of
Retrieval cues
When tested immediately after viewing a list of words, people tend to recall the first and last items more readily than those in the middle. When retested after a delay, they are most likely to recall
The first items on the list
When forgetting is due to encoding failure, meaningless info has not been transferred from
Short term memory into long term memory
Ebbinghaus’ “forgetting curve” shows that after an initial decline, memory for novel info tends to
Level out
The hour before sleep is a good time to memorize info, because going to sleep after learning new material minimizes ____ interference
Retroactive
Freud proposed that painful or unacceptable memories are blocked from consciousness through a mechanism called
Repression
