Chapter 8: Memory

Question 1

Our brain’s ability to store, retain, & recall info & experiences

Answer 1

Memory

Question 2

Storage of brief sensory events such as sights, sounds, & tastes.

Answer 2

Sensory memory

Question 3

Memory that is only stored for a few seconds

Answer 3

Sensory memory

Question 4

Memory that is only processed for 200-500 milliseconds

Answer 4

Sensory memory

Question 5

A temporary storage system that processes incoming sensory memory

Answer 5

Short-term memory

Question 6

Memory that lasts about 20-30 seconds

Answer 6

Short-term memory

Question 7

Who discovered short-term memory?

Answer 7

George Miller

Question 8

Transfer of STM to long-term

Answer 8

Memory consolidation

Question 9

The conscious repitition of info to be remembered

Answer 9

Rehearsal

Question 10

Memory that has not limit, it is the continuous storage of info

Answer 10

Long-term memory

Question 11

Memory of facts & events that we can consciously remember

Answer 11

Explicit memory

Question 12

Memories that not part our consciousness

Answer 12

Implicit memory

Question 13

Info about events we have personally experienced

Answer 13

Episodic memory

Question 14

Knowledge about words, concepts, and language

Answer 14

Semantic memory

Question 15

Stores in about how to do things

Answer 15

Procedural memory

Question 16

A record of an atypical event that has strong emotional associations

Answer 16

Emotional/flashbulb memory

Question 17

Voluntary or unconscious suppression of memories that make us feel uncomfortable, or are too traumatic to deal with

Answer 17

Motivated Forgetting

Question 18

The loss of long-term memory due to disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma

Answer 18

Amnesia

Question 19

The input of info in the memory system

Answer 19

Encoding

Question 20

The retention/storage of the encoded info

Answer 20

Storage

Question 21

Pulling info our of our memory & back into awareness

Answer 21

Retrieval

Question 22

Encoding details such as time, space, frequency, and the meaning of words

Answer 22

Automatic processing

Question 23

Encoding of details that take effort

Answer 23

Effortful

Question 24

Encoding words & their meaning

Answer 24

Semantic encoding

Question 25

Encoding images

Answer 25

Visual encoding

Question 26

Encoding sounds

Answer 26

Acoustic encoding

Question 27

The tendency to an individual to have better memory for info that relates to oneself vs. material that has less personal relevance

Answer 27

Self-reference effect

Question 28

What are the 3 behaviors of memory functioning?

Answer 28

Recall, recognition, relearning

Question 29

You retrieve info previously learned & unconsciously stored

Answer 29

Recall

Question 30

You identify which stimuli match your stored info

Answer 30

Recognition

Question 31

A measure of how much less work it takes to learn info previously studied

Answer 31

Relearning

Question 32

What is an encoding failure?

Answer 32

When the memory is never stored in our memory in the first place

Question 33

Interference:
An old memory is getting in the way of forming a new one

Answer 33

Proactive interference

Question 34

Interference:
A new memory is getting in the way of recalling an old one

Answer 34

Retroactive interference

Question 35

What are ways to enhance your memory?

Answer 35

Rehearsal, chunking, (breaking down info into bite-sized pieces), elaborative rehearsal (relating new info w/ previous knowledge in your memory, mnemonic devices

Question 36

Inability to remember new info after the point of trauma

Answer 36

Anterograde

Question 37

The loss of memory (either partial or complete) for events prior to the trauma

Answer 37

Retrograde amnesia

Question 38

Forgetting where the story came from, and attributing the source to your own experience

Answer 38

Source amnesia