Chapter 9-2nd Half

Question 0

Echoic memory

Answer 0

Auditory sensory memory that lasts for 3-4 seconds

Question 1

Iconic memory

Answer 1

Visual sensory memory that lasts for 1-2 seconds

Question 2

George miller

Answer 2

Known for his work with short-term memory, can only hold on to so much

Question 3

Long-term potentiation (LTP)

Answer 3

An increase In A synapses firing potential after a brief, rapid stimulation

Question 4

Amnesia

Answer 4

Loss of memory

Question 5

Implicit memory

Answer 5

Memory of learned skills that does not require conscious recollection
Cerebellum

Question 6

Explicit memory

Answer 6

Memories of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare
Personal events
Hippocampus

Question 7

Hippocampus

Answer 7

Helps process explicit memories - limbic system

Question 8

Recognition

Answer 8

Measure of memory in which a person needs to identify items previously learned

Question 9

Recall

Answer 9

Measure of memory that can be retrieved

Question 10

Relearning

Answer 10

Memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material a 2nd time

Question 11

Priming

Answer 11

The activation (unconsciously) of a particular association in memory

Question 12

Deja vu

Answer 12

Sense that you’ve experienced if before

Question 13

Mood-congruent memory

Answer 13

Recall experiences that are consistent with your mood

Question 14

Proactive interference

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Something we have learned in the past interferes with our ability to recall things we have recently learned

Question 15

Retroactive interference

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Something we have recently learned interferes with something we learned in the past

Question 16

Repression

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Traumatic events that we push into our submemory and unconsciously forget it

Question 17

Misinformation effect

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Incorporating misleading information into ones memory of an event

Question 18

Source amnesia

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Being told a story/dreaming/movies are so realistic that we think we are a part of it, but never happened

Question 19

State dependent memory

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What we learned in one state is sometimes more easily recalled when we are again in that state

Question 20

Elizabeth loftnus

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Known for her work with memory