Chapter 7 B

Question 1

Priming?

Answer 1

using cues to stimulate memory retrieval..

without conscious awareness of the connection between cue and stored memory

Question 2

Encoding specificity principle:

Answer 2

The encoding specificity principle is the general principle that matching the encoding contexts of information at recall assists in the retrieval of episodic memories

Question 3

What is elaborative rehearsal?

Answer 3

examples of something

-good for studying

Question 4

T/F if your in a good mood it is easy to remember happy times?

Answer 4

True

Question 5

T/F if your in a bad mood it is easy to remember to remember bad or poor times?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Prospective memory?

Answer 6

remember to remember

Question 7

What is continuous monitoring?

Answer 7

rehearsing to hold important information in mind

Question 8

Recall?

Answer 8

technique for retrieving explicit memories

Question 9

Recognition?

Answer 9

remembering items previously learned

Question 10

What is the order for making a memory?

Answer 10

Sensory input -> sensory memory -> (attention) -> working memory -> (encoding) -> long-term memory

Question 11

What do the hippocampus and amygdala do for long term memory?

Answer 11

used for memory encoding

Question 12

What is Retrograde Amnesia?

Answer 12

inability to remember prior events

Question 13

What is Anterograde Amnesia?

Answer 13

inability to form new long term memory

Question 14

What is memory transience?

Answer 14

loss of memory

Question 15

What is the forgetting curve?

Answer 15

rapid decay of memory

Question 16

What is proactive-interference?

Answer 16

an old memory disrupts formation of a new one

Question 17

What is retroactive-interference

Answer 17

new prevents retrieval of old information

Question 18

What is the serial position effect?

Answer 18

ease of remembering something depends in part upon position in a sequence

Question 19

What is primary effect

Answer 19

relatively easy to remember the first items in a list

Question 20

What is absent mindedness?

Answer 20

forgetting information because attention was shifted elsewhere

Question 21

Blocking?

Answer 21

when something is stored in LTM can’t be recalled

Question 22

tip-of-the0tongue phenomenon?

Answer 22

form of blocking

situational cues are close but not quite enough to match your stored memory

Question 23

Misattribution?

Answer 23

memory’s are retrieved. .. but contains false details

Question 24

Suggestibility?

Answer 24

memory distortion that can occur due to priming by another source

Question 25

Bias?

Answer 25

Attitudes, beliefs, emotions, or experiences that distort memories

Question 26

Expectancy bias?

Answer 26

Unconscious tendency to remember events consistent with our experiences

Question 27

Persistence?

Answer 27

unwanted memories can’t be forced out of your mind

Question 28

Mnemonics?

Answer 28

making connections between new information and previously stored memories

Question 29

Method of Loci?

Answer 29

Mentally link items to be remembered to physical spaces

Question 30

Natural language mediators?

Answer 30

linking words to information to be remembered