Memory

Question 1

Stage model of memory

Answer 1

3 stages to memory: sensory, short term, long term

Question 2

Sensory memory

Answer 2

Stage of memory that registers info from environment and holds info for brief time

Question 3

Short term memory

Answer 3

Info stored for 20 seconds

Question 4

Long term memory

Answer 4

Stores info for the long haul

Question 5

Maintenance rehearsal

Answer 5

Repetition of info so it maintains beyond 20 secs

Question 6

Chunking

Answer 6

Increasing amount of info held in short term by grouping related items together in a single unit

Question 7

Working memory

Answer 7

Temporary storage and active conscious manipulation of information needed for complex cognitive tasks: reasoning, learning, and problem solving

Question 8

Elaborative rehearsal

Answer 8

Focuses on meaning of info to help encode and transfer to long term

Question 9

Procedural memory

Answer 9

Long term memory they includes memories of different skills, operations, and actions

Question 10

Episodic memory

Answer 10

Long term memory that includes memories of particular events.

Question 11

Semantic memory

Answer 11

Long term memory that includes memories of general knowledge, concepts, facts, and names.

Question 12

Explicit memory

Answer 12

Info that can be consciously recollected

Declarative memory

Question 13

Implicit memory

Answer 13

Info that affects behavior or task performance but cannot be consciously recollected

Non-declarative memory

Question 14

Serial position effect

Answer 14

Tendency to remember beginning and end of list, and not middle.

Question 15

Encoding specificity principle

Answer 15

Info retrieval is similar to info encoding and therefore easier to retrieve.

Question 16

Context effect

Answer 16

Recover info more easily when frigid all occurs in same setting as original learning.

Question 17

Mood congruence

Answer 17

Given mood tends to evoke memories that are consistent with that mood.

Question 18

Flashbulb memories

Answer 18

Recall specific images or details surrounding a vivid, rare or significant event

Question 19

Prospective memory

Answer 19

Remembering to do something in future.

Question 20

Decay theory

Answer 20

Forgetting is due to normal metabolic processes that occur in the brain over time.

Question 21

Source memory or source monitoring

Answer 21

Minors for when, where, and his a particular experience or piece of info was acquired.

Question 22

Interference theory

Answer 22

Forgetting is caused by one memory competing with or replacing another.

Question 23

Retroactive interference

Answer 23

New memory interferes with old memory recall.

Question 24

Proactive interference

Answer 24

Old memory interferes with new memory recall.

Question 25

Suppression

Answer 25

Forgetting that occurs consciously. Deliberate attempt to not think about and remember specific info.

Question 26

Repression

Answer 26

Unconscious forgetting. Memory is blocked and unavailable to consciousness.

Question 27

Imagination inflation

Answer 27

Vividly imagining an event markedly increased confidence that the event actually occurred.

Question 28

Encoding

Answer 28

Process of transforming info into a form that can be entered into the memory system