Exam 2

Question 1

a system for temporarily storing and managing information

Answer 1

working memory(short term memory)

Question 2

type of declarative memory, the ability to remember episodes of your life, personal recollections

Answer 2

episodic memory
(part of long term memory)

Question 3

a detailed vivid memory associated with important historical or autobiographical events

Answer 3

flashbulb memory

Question 4

type of declarative memory, storehouse of permanent knowledge not drawn from personal experience, includes common knowledge and facts acquired over a lifetime

Answer 4

semantic memory

Question 5

the initial learning of information

Answer 5

encoding

Question 6

taking information fro one form and converting it in a way that makes sense to u

Answer 6

Recoding
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Question 7

the neurological change that represents our experience

Answer 7

memory trace

Question 8

is the stabilizing of memories over time, the conversion of short term memories to long term memories

Answer 8

consolidation

Question 9

occurs when new information gets in the way of older information (main cause of forgetting)

Answer 9

retroactive interference

Question 10

occurs when past information interferes with retention of new information (learning ne language

Answer 10

proactive interference

Question 11

all information stores in memory

Answer 11

available information

Question 12

the information we are able to retrieve

Answer 12

accessible information

Question 13

tendency to recall the first items in a series best

Answer 13

primary effect

Question 14

recency effect

Answer 14

tendency to recall the last items in a series best

Question 15

Henry molaison - inability to form new memories due to damage in the hippocampus

Answer 15

anterograde amnesia

Question 16

large memory error in which events recalled never took place

Answer 16

false memory