Keywords

Question 1

Input –

Answer 1

sensory information we receive from our environment.

Question 2

Storage –

Answer 2

the retention of information in our memory system.

Question 3

Encoding –

Answer 3

turning sensory information into a form that can be used and stored by the brain

Question 4

Acoustic encoding

Answer 4

the process of storing sound in our memory system.

Question 5

Visual encoding –

Answer 5

the process of storing something that has been seen in our memory system.

Question 6

Semantic encoding – .

Answer 6

the process of storing the meaning of information in our memory system, rather than the sound of a word.

Question 7

Output –

Answer 7

the information we recall, output can refer to a behavioural response.

Question 8

Retrieval –

Answer 8

the recall of stored memories

Question 9

Short-term memory –

Answer 9

our initial memory store that is temporary and limited.

Question 10

Long-term memory –

Answer 10

a memory store that holds potentially limitless amounts of information for up to a lifetime.

Question 11

Duration –

Answer 11

the length of time information can be stored in STM and LTM.

Question 12

Capacity –

Answer 12

the amount of information that can be stored in STM and LTM.

Question 13

Rehearse –

Answer 13

when we repeat information over and over again to make it stick.

Question 14

Displacement –

Answer 14

when the STM becomes full and new information pushes out older information.

Question 15

Amnesia

Answer 15

– memory loss, often through accident, disease or injury.

Question 16

Interference –

Answer 16

when new information overwrites older information.

Question 17

Anterograde amnesia –.

Answer 17

a memory condition that means new long-term memories cannot be made

Question 18

Retrograde amnesia –

Answer 18

a memory condition that affects recall of memories prior to an injury to the brain.

Question 19

Schema –

Answer 19

a packet of knowledge about an event, person or place that influences how we perceive and remember.

Question 20

Active reconstruction –

Answer 20

memory is not an exact copy of what we experienced, but an interpretation or reconstruction of events that are influences by our schema when we remember them again.

Question 21

Omission –

Answer 21

when we leave out unfamiliar, irrelevant or unpleasant details when remembering something.

Question 22

Transformation –

Answer 22

when detaisl are changed to make them more familiar and rational.

Question 23

Familiarisation –

Answer 23

when unfamiliar details are changes to align with our own schema.

Question 24

Rationalisation -

Answer 24

when we add details into our recall to give a reason for something that may have not originally fitted with the schema.

Question 25

Sensory register –

Answer 25

our immediate memory of sensory information

Question 26

Primacy –

Answer 26

the tendency to recall words at the beginning of a list when asked to remember it.

Question 27

Recency –

Answer 27

the tendency to recall words at the end of a list when asked to remember it.

Question 28

Serial reproduction –

Answer 28

a technique where participants retell something to another participant to form a chain

Question 29

Repeated reproduction –

Answer 29

a technique where participants are asked to recall something again and again.

Question 30

Reductionism –

Answer 30

the theory of explaining something according to its basic constituent parts.

Question 31

Holism –

Answer 31

the theory of explaining something as a whole.