chapter eight: memory

Question 1

what is memory

Answer 1

experience happens and only attended information pass through

Question 2

how can a short-term memory convert into a long-term memory

Answer 2

repetition

Question 3

what is sensory memory

Answer 3

an after image memory tied to lights and sounds, lasting a couple of seconds

Question 4

what is a short-term memory

Answer 4

working memory which is information stays for 30 seconds and if it is not attended, will be forgotten due to limited capacity

Question 5

what is long-term memory

Answer 5

anything that lasts from a minute to a lifetime. there is no capacity limit to how many, the more you repeat the stronger it is

Question 6

what is serial position effect

Answer 6

tendency to remember info at the beginning or end of a series

Question 7

what is the effect called when someone has good memory of items at beginning of a list

Answer 7

primacy effect

Question 8

what is the effect called when someone has good memory of items at the end of a list

Answer 8

recency effect

Question 9

what did george miller figure out

Answer 9

the magic number 7

Question 10

what is the magic number seven

Answer 10

the maximum amount of items people can handle is seven

Question 11

what adds refinement to the idea of short-term memory

Answer 11

working memory model

Question 12

what is different between short-term memory and the working memory model

Answer 12

both the same, but working model has distinction of verbal and visual sensations

Question 13

what does the central executive do

Answer 13

central executive is you being aware of what is happening

Question 14

what is another word for phonological loop

Answer 14

repeating (internally or externally)

Question 15

what is the best way to store memory

Answer 15

visualizing or having a visuospatial sketch pad

Question 16

what is an episodic buffer

Answer 16

having an order of events

Question 17

what memory model is tied to brain development

Answer 17

working memory

Question 18

what tends to be the last lobe to fully develop

Answer 18

the frontal lobe

Question 19

what do LSATs or MCATs typically measure

Answer 19

a person’s working memory capacity

Question 20

what kind of memory is facts and trivia

Answer 20

semantic memory

Question 21

what is episodic memory

Answer 21

experience events that you can place yourself in at a moment of time

Question 22

how does your body know when lunch is and to be hungry

Answer 22

classical conditioning, association to something to make you feel like you need to do a certain thing

Question 23

what memory is tied to habitual processes

Answer 23

procedural memory

Question 24

what can happen if you don’t regularly repeat information in long-term memory

Answer 24

it will be easily forgotten

Question 25

how can long-term memory be enhanced

Answer 25

making the memory more meaningful, repeating it

Question 26

what did the generation effect conclude

Answer 26

people learn better when one can generate own conclusions rather than getting answers to situations

Question 27

what can verbalizing help do

Answer 27

the production effect, more effort in speaking leads to a more memorable memory

Question 28

what can teaching or explaining a concept to someone do

Answer 28

allow for one to deeply process information and make memory more meaningful

Question 29

what did elaborative interrogation conclude

Answer 29

people who had to come up with reason and had to elaborate tended to do better than those given the explanation