Memory

Question 1

What is the Modal Model of Memory (also called the three-stage model)?

Answer 1

Sensory Store (very brief) TO Short Term Memory (10-15 seconds without rehearsal) with ENCODING (rehersal), goes to Long Term memory

Question 2

How long does something stay in short term memory?

Answer 2

10-15 seconds

Question 3

What is a sensory memory?

Answer 3

To sustain sensations for identification

Question 4

What is the capacity and duration of sensory memory?

Answer 4

D: very short, 1/2-3 secs
C: Very large (senic)

Question 5

What is iconic memory?

Answer 5

Visual

Question 6

What is echoic Memory?

Answer 6

Auditory

Question 7

Haptic Memory?

Answer 7

Touch

Question 8

What is gustic memory?

Answer 8

Taste

Question 9

What is Olfactic memory?

Answer 9

Smell

Question 10

What is chunking?

Answer 10

chunking is a process by which small individual pieces of a set of information are bound together to create a meaningful whole later on in memory. Ex. Breaking phone numbers into little groups.

Question 11

What is imagery?

Answer 11

Making images with the two key words interacting.

Question 12

Primary Effect?

Answer 12

We remember things we see in the beginning.

Question 13

Recency Effect?

Answer 13

We remember things we see at the end or most recently.

Question 14

Semantic Memory

Answer 14

General knowledge we have. May not remember when learned.

Question 15

Explicit Memory

Answer 15

Recent things. ex. what did you have for breakfast?

Question 16

Implicit Memory

Answer 16

Procedural Memory. Tying shoes, playing trumpet

Question 17

Retrograde Amnesia?

Answer 17

Retrograde amnesia is a neurological condition characterized by the inability to recall events, information, or experiences that occurred before the onset of the amnesia.

Question 18

Anterograde Amnesia?

Answer 18

What is anterograde amnesia? Anterograde amnesia is a type of memory loss that occurs when you can’t form new memories. In the most extreme cases, this means you permanently lose the ability to learn or retain any new information. On its own, this type of memory loss is rare.