Chapter 8 Memory

Question 1

Encoding

Answer 1

getting info into brain

Question 2

Storage

Answer 2

retaining info

Question 3

Retrieval

Answer 3

Getting info back out

Question 4

Type of Encoding

Answer 4

1) Automatic: little to no effort

2) Effortful: conciously bringing info forward (requires rehearsal)

Question 5

Spacing effect

Answer 5

Retaining something better when it is rehearsed

Question 6

Serial Position Effect

Answer 6

If you are asked righ tno you remember beginning and end (if asked later only recall beginning)

Question 7

Sensory Memory

Answer 7

Immediate, initial recording of info

Question 8

2 types of Sensory Memory

Answer 8

Iconic and Echoic

Question 9

Iconic

Answer 9

Short lasting photographic

Question 10

Echoic

Answer 10

Extremely accurate very short sound memory (7+-2)

Question 11

What happend to sensory memory?

Answer 11

Stored in LTM or forgotten!

Question 12

LTM

Answer 12

permanent and limitless (average 1 billion bits)

Question 13

Explicit Memory

Answer 13

Facts General Knowledge

Personal Expereince/Events

Question 14

Implicit

Answer 14

Skills

Classical (Operant Conditioning)

Question 15

Hippocampus

Answer 15

Explicit memory (recall words)

Question 16

Cerebellum

Answer 16

Implicity memory (skills, conditioning, procedural)

Question 17

Encoding Specificity

Answer 17

Stim. with exp can later trigger a memory

Ex: scuba diving while learning words

Question 18

State-Dependent Memory

Answer 18

Alcohol while studying then testing while drunk will give better results

Question 19

Mood Congruent Memory

Answer 19

Recall memory connecte with mood we are in (reason why depression is so hard to get out of)

Question 20

Encoding Failure

Answer 20

Info doesn’t enter LTM

Question 21

Storage Decay

Answer 21

Forget rapidly, then levels off with time (like material from a class)

Question 22

Proactive interference

Answer 22

Disrupts recall of new info

Question 23

Retroactive Interference

Answer 23

disrupts reall of old info

Question 24

Planting False Memory

Answer 24

Easy to do with leading questions in kids but also possible in adults

Question 25

Is memory fixed?

Answer 25

No!

Question 26

Is memory all in one place in the brain and what organizes it all?

Answer 26

No it is all in places that are taking it in like the senses but hippocampus organizes it all.

Question 27

Flashbulb Memories

Answer 27

9-11

Question 28

Amnesia

Answer 28

1) Retrograde: Inability to recall past memories

2) Anterograde: inability to form new memories