memory

Question 1

iconic memory lasts

Answer 1

0.5 sec

Question 2

echoic memory lasts

Answer 2

4 sec

Question 3

STM holds for

Answer 3

30 sec

Question 4

recent memory lasts

Answer 4

2 weeks

Question 5

LMT lasts

Answer 5

2 years +

Question 6

strategy for improving recognition

Answer 6

priming

Question 7

priming

Answer 7

exposuing to stimulus to make it more recognizable

Question 8

zeigarnik effect

Answer 8

if stuck, brain keeps working on it

Question 9

redintegration

Answer 9

something rapidly unlocks a chain of memories

Question 10

flashbulb memories

Answer 10

usually traumatic, great detail

Question 11

prospective memory

Answer 11

what you were going to do

Question 12

eyewitness

Answer 12

not reliable, STM better than LTM

Question 13

hippocampus

Answer 13

in temporal lobe, consolidation of LTM
HM anterograde amnesia

Question 14

frontal lobe

Answer 14

susceptible to Gsm problems and interference

Question 15

brain parts for memory

Answer 15

hippocampus
mamillary bodies
thalamus
temporal cortex
frontal lobe
basal forebrain

+ACh

Question 16

STM becomes LTM by

Answer 16

Long term potentiation
repeated stimulation of synapse change dendrite, increased sensitivity to stimulation
Involves kinases

Question 17

Ebbinghaus

Answer 17

forgetting

Question 18

serial position effect

Answer 18

on immediate recall, remember beginning/end better

On delayed recall, remember beginning better, middle/end the same

Question 19

paramnesia

Answer 19

distorted memory, involves confabulation

Question 20

retroactive interference

Answer 20

recently learned info interfere with recall

Question 21

proactive interference

Answer 21

previously learned info interfere with learning new stuff

Question 22

mood-congruent memory

Answer 22

recall better when mood matches mood at learning

Question 23

state-dependent memory

Answer 23

recall better in state similar to when learning

Question 24

motivated forgetting

Answer 24

aka repression
Freud

Question 25

method of loci

Answer 25

visual image in place while walkaround

Question 26

pegword system

Answer 26

memorize images, hang them onto words

Question 27

word associations

Answer 27

form words/sentences with first letters of words being memorized

Question 28

substitute words technique

Answer 28

break down words, sub more familiar words to be visualzied