Chp 7

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

the process in which we recollect prior experiences

Question 2

Flashbulb Memories

Answer 2

Important events that are engrained in our memories

Question 3

Semantic Memory

Answer 3

General knowledge

Question 4

Episodic Memory

Answer 4

Memory of a specific event

Question 5

Explicit Memory

Answer 5

Memory of specific information; both episodic and semantic;

Question 6

Implicit Memory

Answer 6

Memories of procedures

Question 7

Encoding

Answer 7

translation of information into a form in which it can be processed; visual, acoustic, and semantic

Question 8

Storage

Answer 8

Where encoded information is kept

Question 9

Maintenance Rehearsal

Answer 9

Repeating information until it is memorized

Question 10

Elaborative Rehearsal

Answer 10

Relating new information to old information to learn it

Question 11

Retrieval

Answer 11

Finding stored information and returning it to conscious thought

Question 12

Context-Dependent Memory

Answer 12

the Context of a memory depend on the situation

Question 13

State-Dependent Memory

Answer 13

Memories retrieved based on a current mood

Question 14

Tip-of-the-Tounge Phenomenon

Answer 14

Not being able to verbalize thought

Question 15

Sensory Memory

Answer 15

Initial recording of information

Question 16

Iconic Memory

Answer 16

Using icons to remember information

Question 17

Eidetic Memory

Answer 17

Ability to visualize stimuli over long periods of time

Question 18

Echoic Memory

Answer 18

Mental traces of sound

Question 19

Short-Term Memory

Answer 19

aka working memory; holds memories for short periods of time

Question 20

Primacy Effect

Answer 20

The tendency to recall initial items in a list

Question 21

Recency Effect

Answer 21

The tendency to recall last items in a list

Question 22

Chunking

Answer 22

organizing items into manageable units

Question 23

Interference

Answer 23

when new information takes the place of what is already in the short- term memory

Question 24

Long-Term Memory

Answer 24

Rehearsing information for long time remembrance

Question 25

Schemas

Answer 25

Mental representations that we form of the world by organizing information into knowledge

Question 26

Recognition

Answer 26

identifying objects or events that have been encountered before

Question 27

Recall

Answer 27

To bring back to conscious thought

Question 28

Relearning

Answer 28

To relearn a stimuli

Question 29

Decay

Answer 29

The fading of a memory

Question 30

Infantile Amnesia

Answer 30

Forgetting events of a very young age

Question 31

Anterograde

Answer 31

Memory loss from trauma that prevents a person form forming new memories

Question 32

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 32

Forgetting events leading up to a traumatic event