Memory

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

Studying memory involves understanding how things are remembered and why things are forgotten

Question 2

Sensory Memory

Answer 2

lasts only for a few seconds; forms the connection between perception and memory

Question 3

Iconic Memory

Answer 3

Sensory memory for vision

Question 4

George Sperling

Answer 4

found that people could see more than they can remember.

Question 5

Partial Report

Answer 5

sensory memory lasts for a few seconds and in the time it takes you to write down a part of it you have forgotten the rest

Question 6

Ulric Neisser

Answer 6

coin the term icon for brief visual memory lasts 1 second

Question 7

Backward Masking

Answer 7

when a pattern is flashed before the icon fades it will be erased and works for auditory as well. Best if mask is similar to icon

Question 8

Ghost trails

Answer 8

you sensory information is remaining briefly in your awareness and because the object is moving quickly it appears as running together

Question 9

Echoic Memory

Answer 9

Sensory memory for the auditory sensations

Question 10

Short term memory

Answer 10

temporary and lasts for seconds or minutes; largely auditory and items are coded phonologically

Question 11

Working Memory

Answer 11

temporary memory that is needed to perform the task that someone is working on at the moment

Question 12

George Miller

Answer 12

Short-term memory has the capacity for 7 items +/-2

Question 13

Chunking

Answer 13

Grouping items that can increase the capacity of short term memory

Question 14

Rehearsal

Answer 14

repeating or practicing is the key to keeping things in short term memory and transferring items to long term memory

Question 15

Primary rehearsal

Answer 15

(Maintenance) involves repeating material to hold it in STM

Question 16

Secondary rehearsal

Answer 16

(elaborative) involves organizing and understanding material to transfer it to LTM

Question 17

Interference

Answer 17

How other information or distractions cause one to forget items in STM. STM is susceptible to interference.

Question 18

Proactive interference

Answer 18

Disrupting information that was learned before the new items were presented, such as a list of similar words

Question 19

Inhibition

Answer 19

when proactive/retroactive interference makes recall problematic

Question 20

Retroactive Interference

Answer 20

Disrupting information that was learned after the new items presented

Question 21

Long Term Memory

Answer 21

capable of permanent retention; most items are learned semantically