Memory

Question 1

Sensory Memory

Answer 1

Reliable, but goes away quickly

Question 2

Ionic Memory

Answer 2

Picture Memory

Question 3

Echoic Memory

Answer 3

Auditory Memory

Question 4

Working Memory

Answer 4

The ability to keep data stored and be able to manipulate it

Question 5

Long Term Memory

Answer 5

Memories stored permanently

Question 6

Recall

Answer 6

Having to produce the knowledge

Question 7

Recognition

Answer 7

Remembering that you know it

Question 8

Retrieval

Answer 8

Remembering what you ALREADY know

Question 9

Encoding

Answer 9

Recognizing the information is important

Question 10

Implicit Memory

Answer 10

Non-Declarative and are things we do procedurally once we know how to do it (ex. writing, reading)

Question 11

Explicit Memory

Answer 11

Declarative Memory; Knowledge that you can declare

Question 12

Eidetic Memory

Answer 12

Photographic Memory

Question 13

Episodic Memory

Answer 13

Events that have happened over the course of your life

Question 14

Mnemonic Devices

Answer 14

A device that helps you remember things. (Ex. PEMDAS)

Question 15

Hippocampus & Frontal Lobes

Answer 15

Play a central role in forming explicit memory

Question 16

Cerebellum & Basal Ganglia

Answer 16

Play a central role in forming implicit memory

Question 17

Infantile Amnesia

Answer 17

Not remembering events that happened when we were babies, because we weren’t yet capable of forming those memories

Question 18

Flashbulb Memory

Answer 18

A stressful/strong event that is remembered vividly because of the impact. (Ex. Where you were when 9/11 occurred)

Question 19

How do we retrieve memories?

Answer 19

With retrieval clues (ex. multiple choice questions help you remember the material)

Question 20

What is context-dependence?

Answer 20

Doing something in a specific setting and it causes you to remember it more effectively.

Ex. Studying in the same setting as a test you are going to take will help you retrieve the information more effectively.

Question 21

Serial Position Effect: Primacy Effect

Answer 21

When you retrieve the first things on the list

Question 22

Serial Position Effect: Recency Effect

Answer 22

When you can retrieve the last things

Question 23

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 23

Can’t remember the past

Question 24

Anterograde

Answer 24

Can’t form new memories

Question 25

Elizabeth Loftus & the misinformation effect

Answer 25

Suggestibility leading to false statements

Question 26

Imagination Inflation

Answer 26

Seeing and imagining activate the same areas

Question 27

Repression

Answer 27

Making yourself forget something