Memory

Question 1

Brain stores info indefinitely

Answer 1

Encoding

Question 2

Placing new info into memory

Answer 2

Storage

Question 3

Involves remembering with external cues or internal cues

Answer 3

Retrieval

Question 4

The things you remember come without any conscious awareness

Answer 4

Automatic Processing

Question 5

mental activity that requires deliberation

Answer 5

Effortful Processing

Question 6

Repeating info over and over again to remember

Answer 6

Rehearsal

Question 7

Rehearsing skill after you no longer improving

Answer 7

Overlearning

Question 8

More likely to remember info at beginning or end

Answer 8

Serial Position Effect

Question 9

Attaching sense to memory

Answer 9

Semantic Encoding

Question 10

Better memory for things relevant to you

Answer 10

Self-Reference Effect

Question 11

Ways to help remember large amounts of info

Answer 11

Mnemonic Device

Question 12

Imagine a place and you match terms to that things in that location

Answer 12

Method of Loci

Question 13

Come up with a item for each word memorizing and rhyme with it

Answer 13

Peg-Word System

Question 14

Pair together smaller groups to memorize at a time

Answer 14

Chunking

Question 15

The way we remember the way things feel, taste, sound, looks, and smells

Answer 15

Sensory Memory

Question 16

Holds info for normally 20 seconds or so

Answer 16

Short-Term Memory

Question 17

Large memory storage, can be stored for life

Answer 17

Long-Term Memory

Question 18

autobiographical memories

Answer 18

Flashbulb Memory

Question 19

persistent increase in synapse strength

Answer 19

Long-Term Potentiation

Question 20

type of long term memory, facts and events

Answer 20

Explicit Memory

Question 21

retained information

Answer 21

Implicit Memory

Question 22

Retrieval of mental info in the past

Answer 22

Recall

Question 23

Identify similar stimulus or situation that previously happened

Answer 23

Recognition

Question 24

relation between context at time of study

Answer 24

Context Effect

Question 25

Remember if physical or mental state are similar for learning and remembering

Answer 25

State-Dependent Memory

Question 26

extremely long term memory

Answer 26

Permastore Memory

Question 27

Older memories interfere with new memories

Answer 27

Proactive Interference

Question 28

Forget old ability because learned new ability

Answer 28

Retroactive Interference

Question 29

Memory is isolated/forgotten in brain

Answer 29

Repression

Question 30

Memory is altered due to wrong/misleading information

Answer 30

Misinformation Effect