Memory

Question 1

Sensory Memory

Answer 1

very short, few seconds

Question 2

Working Memory

Answer 2

• short term memory
• can hold 7 +/- 2 pieces of info
• chunking

Question 3

Primacy effect

Answer 3

remember beginning better (rehearsal [repeating])

Question 4

Recency effect

Answer 4

remember ending better

Question 5

General vs. Episodic

Answer 5

General: 1+1=2 (general facts)

Episodic: story/episode (like a TV episode)

Question 6

Semantic Memory

Answer 6

• encode meaning of words -> vocab
• remembering simple facts

Question 7

Declarative vs. Procedural

Answer 7

Declarative: facts you can declare and talk about (Ex: 1+1=2; Abe was the 16th)

Procedural: “muscle memory” (Ex: riding a bike)

Question 8

Explicit vs. Implicit

Answer 8

Explicit: “central meaning” (Ex: 1+1=2) stuff you’re consciously aware of

Implicit: “unconscious/peripheral memory” (peripheral path)

Question 9

Retrieval

Answer 9

1) Tip of the tongue phenomena
2) More retrieval paths -> better retrieval
3) Elaborative rehearsal -> attach memory to something
4) Deep -> better, more meaning
Shallow -> less meaning
5) Spreading activation
6) Schemas

Question 10

Korsakoff’s Syndrome

Answer 10

• memory disorder
• caused by vitamin B/thiamine deficiency
• associated with alcoholism

Question 11

Retrograde vs. Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 11

Retrograde Amnesia: forget the past (retro=past)

Anterograde Amnesia: inability to encode new memories

Question 12

Confabulation

Answer 12

brain created it out of nowhere that you genuinely believe but never happened

Question 13

Flashbulb Memory

Answer 13

• very vivid/detailed memories
• related to emotion

Question 14

Source Monitoring

Answer 14

• recall information/experience but attribute memory to the wrong source

Ex: eyewitness testimony, childhood amnesia

Question 15

Semantic Network

Answer 15

• concepts are organized in mind as connected ideas
• spreading activation: activate one idea/concept/memory -> activate related concepts