Memory 1

Question 1

What is Memory?

Answer 1

• the ability to recall or recognize previous experience (learning that carries on, persistence of learning)

TEXTBOOK VERSION: refers to both the structures and processes involved in both the storage and retrieval of info

Question 2

Are Memory and Learning connected?

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

How do people describe memory?

Answer 3

• looking into something to get something I need

EX: a library, filing cabinet (in the brain) –> search metaphors

Question 4

Is the Search Metaphor correct or incorrect?

Answer 4

INCORRECT

Question 5

Why is the search metaphor incorrect?

Answer 5

• experiment where people draw the american penny

Question 6

What is the purpose of memory? What is the function of memory?

Answer 6

To enable a useful response in the current situation

Question 7

Is memory more about the present or the past?

Answer 7

PRESENT

Question 8

Reconstruction

Answer 8

This is taking information from the environment to help trigger useful memories

• We also “fill in” what is missing

Question 9

Flashbulb Memories

Answer 9

Vivid memories of surprising or shocking events

Question 10

What are some examples of Flahsbulb memories? (3)

Answer 10

1. JFKs assassination
2. September 11th, 2001
3. The Challenger Explosion (big spaceship explosion)

Question 11

Our memories are often reconstructions based on what?

Answer 11

Available information
(even true for most dearly held memories)

Question 12

What are the Memory Phases? (3)

Answer 12

1. Encoding
2. Storage
3. Retrieval

Question 13

Encoding

Question 14

Storage

Question 15

Retrieval