Long Term Memory

Question 1

Retrieval

Answer 1

the process of pulling memories out of long-term memory

Question 2

Recall

Answer 2

Pulling the information with context clues, such as filling in the
blanks.

Question 3

Recognition

Answer 3

Identifying/retrieving the correct option when itʼs
presented, it such as multiple choice questions in which the correct
answer only needs to be “recognized.”

Question 4

Retrieval Cue

Answer 4

a stimulus that aids in the process of remembering.

Question 5

Context-Dependent

Answer 5

when the environment in which you learned an
item serves as a retrieval cue.

Question 6

Mood-Congruent Memory

Answer 6

mood/emotional state serves as the
retrieval cue

Question 7

State-dependent learning

Answer 7

If an physical state serves as a retrieval cue

Question 8

Procedural (nondeclarative) memory

Answer 8

type of long-term
memory including memory for skills, procedures, habits, and
conditioned responses. These memories are not conscious but
are implied to exist because they affect conscious behavior.

Question 9

Declarative memory

Answer 9

type of long-term memory containing
information that is conscious and known (memory for facts).

Question 10

Semantic memory

Answer 10

type of declarative memory
containing general knowledge, such as knowledge of
language and information learned in formal education.

Question 11

Episodic memory

Answer 11

type of declarative memory
containing personal information not readily available to
others, such as daily activities and events.
- What you had for breakfast today
- Meaningful events are more likely to be kept in LTM
- Semantic and episodic memories are forms of explicit
memory - memory that is consciously known.
Long Term Memory (LTM)

Question 12

Organization of Memory

Answer 12

LTM organized in terms of related
meanings and concepts

Question 13

Semantic network model

Answer 13

model
of memory organization that
assumes information is stored in
the brain in a connected fashion,
with concepts that are related
stored physically closer to each
other than retrieval cue a stimulus
for remembering.

Question 14

Long-term memory (LTM)

Answer 14

the system of memory into which all the
information is placed to be kept more or less permanently

Question 15

Elaborative rehearsal

Answer 15

a method of transferring information from STM
into LTM by making that information meaningful in some way