Chapter 7

Question 1

Free Recall

Answer 1

Say what you remember (Explicit)

Question 2

Cued Recall

Answer 2

Hints to help you remember (Explicit)

Question 3

Recognition

Answer 3

Choose the correct item from among several items (Explicit)

Question 4

Savings

Answer 4

Relearn something. (Explicit)

Question 5

Implicit memory

Answer 5

Unconscious retention of memory (sweating because you are in a dentist chair)

Question 6

Explicit Memory

Answer 6

Conscious retention of memory

Question 7

Priming

Answer 7

increasing the chance that you will use a word by reading or hearing a word

Question 8

Procedural Memories

Answer 8

Remembering how to do something (riding a bike, tying a shoelace)

Question 9

Declarative Memories

Answer 9

Memories that we can state in words (explicit)

Question 10

Short Term Memory

Answer 10

temporary storage, limited capacity

Question 11

Long Term Memory

Answer 11

Permanent Storage, vast capacity

Question 12

Semantic memory

Answer 12

Remembering something that was taught (Long-term memory)

Question 13

Episodic Memory

Answer 13

Remembering something that you experienced (Long-term)

Question 14

source amnesia

Answer 14

forgetting how you learned something

Question 15

Information-processing model

Answer 15

Information that is processed, coded, and stored.

Question 16

chunking

Answer 16

Grouping items in meaningful sequence or cluster

Question 17

Consolidation

Answer 17

Turning a short-term memory into long-term

Question 18

working memory

Answer 18

active processing of what you see and hear and information retrieval from long term memory

Question 19

executive functioning

Answer 19

governs shift of attention

Question 20

primacy effect

Answer 20

remembering first item on list

Question 21

recency effect

Answer 21

remember the last item on the list

Question 22

Hypermnesia

Answer 22

Gain of memory over time

Question 23

Reconstruction

Answer 23

What you remember and what must have happened, your expectations based on distinct memories

Question 24

Hindsight Bias

Answer 24

To mold how events transpired to fit how events turned out

Question 25

Proactive interference

Answer 25

Forgetting new because of old material

Question 26

Retroactive interference

Answer 26

Forgetting old because of new material

Question 27

Repression

Answer 27

Moving a memory from conscious mind to unconscious mind

Question 28

Dissociation

Answer 28

Memory that cannot be retrieved

Question 29

Retrograde

Answer 29

Inability to retrieve memories from the past

Question 30

Anterograde

Answer 30

Inability to store new information (memento)

Question 31

Amnesia

Answer 31

Damage to prefrontal cortex

Question 32

Confabulations

Answer 32

Fill in gap in memory