Memory

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

The process of encoding, storing, retrieving information

Question 2

Sensory register

Answer 2

Holds information for a very short period of time <1 sec
Little interpratation of information
Different store for each sense modality

Question 3

Touch, sight, hearing, smell, taste

Answer 3

Haptic, iconic, echoic, olfactory, gustatory

Question 4

Short term memory

Answer 4

Memory for items that have just been perceived
Forms the psychological present
Limited in capacity (7+/-2)
Limited in duration (20-30 sec)

Question 5

Working memory

Answer 5

An active processing system that keeps different types of information available for current use
Info remains in working memory for 20-30 secs unless you activaly think about the information

Question 6

Long term memory

Answer 6

The relatively permanent storage of information to remember nursey rhymes, spelling of words you rarely use and what u ate for lunch yesterday.

Question 7

Freecall test

Answer 7

Try to remember as many letters as you can after they come up

Question 8

Serial position effect

Answer 8

The ability to recall items from a list depends on the order of presentation, with items presented early or late in the list remebered better than those in the middle

Question 9

Primary effect

Answer 9

Better memory for items at the beginning of the list ( long term memory)

Question 10

Recency effect

Answer 10

Better memory for the items at the end of the list (working memory)

Question 11

Criticism of akinson and shiffron model

Answer 11

Recall of characters or words is impaired if they are phonologically similiar
It should not be possible to have long term without short term memory
Spatial tasks interfere with encoding spatial data but not verbal data and vice versa

Question 12

Spatial tasks

Answer 12

Mental rotation, being able to make aa mental representation of an object

Question 13

Phonological loop

Answer 13

The speech and sound related component of working memory and holds verbal and auditory information

Question 14

Levels of processing

Answer 14

Struchtural, phonemic, categorical, sentence

Question 15

Schemas

Answer 15

Cognitive struchtures that helps us perceive, organize process and use information

Question 16

Spreading activation models

Answer 16

Stimuli in working memory activate specific nodes in long term memory, making retrieval easier

Question 17

Retrieval cues

Answer 17

Anything that helps a person recall information stored in long term memory

Question 18

Mnemonics

Answer 18

Learning aids, strategies and devices that improve recall through the use of retrival cues

Question 19

Explicit memory

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Requires concious effort and often can be verbally explained (personally experience events and facts)

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Implicit memory

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Does not require concious effect and often cant be verbally described (motor skills and habits)

Question 21

Episodic

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Memory for ones personal past experience

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Semantic

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Memory for knowledge about the world

Question 23

Recognition

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Identify which items had been presented at an earlier time

Question 24

Prospective memory

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Rembering to do something at some future time

Question 25

Proactive interference

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When prior information inhibits the ability to remeber new information

Question 26

Retroactive interference

Answer 26

When new information inhibits the ability to remeber old information

Question 27

Amnesia

Answer 27

The individual loses the ability to retrieve vast quantites of information

Question 28

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 28

People loose past memorys

Question 29

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 29

People lose the ability to form new memories