Memory

Question 1

Information processing model

Answer 1

Brain is like computer. Receive input, process it, make decision

Question 2

Sensory memory

Answer 2

First interact w information in environment. Temporary memory.

Iconic memory: what we see
Echoic memory: what we hear

Question 3

Working memory

Answer 3

7. 7+-2 things that can be remembered at a time.

Question 4

Long term memory

Answer 4

Explicit: facts or events.

Implicit: how to ride a bike

Question 5

Explicit memory

Answer 5

Facts events.

Semantic: having to do with words. Meaning of worlds

Episodic memory: memory of events

Question 6

Implicit memory

Answer 6

Procedural: riding a bike

Priming

Question 7

Rote rehearsal

Answer 7

Repeating something to remember it. Not effective. Doesn’t require you to process the info

Question 8

Chunking

Answer 8

Group info to better remember it

Question 9

Mnemonic devices

Answer 9

Imagery. Pegwords. Method of loci. Connecting previous info to remember new info. Acronym

Question 10

Self referencing

Answer 10

Preparing to teach

Question 11

Spacing

Answer 11

Break up study sessions

Question 12

Retrieval cues

Answer 12

Priming- even if we’re unaware of them

Context- having a variety of cues (multiple locations) will help

State- if you’re happy you’re more likely to retrieve happy thoughts

Question 13

Retrieval

Answer 13

Free recall

Cued recall

Recognition

Question 14

Free recall

Answer 14

Primacy effect

Recency effect

Middle is hard to remember

Question 15

Cued recall

Answer 15

Basically getting clues until you recall it

Question 16

Recognition

Answer 16

Not just cued, you get the whole word and you have to recognize it

Question 17

Memory reconstruction

Answer 17

False information-

Misleading info

Source monitoring: being able to differentiate sources of memories

Question 18

Flashbulb memories

Answer 18

Highly emotional memories, can be reconstructions

Question 19

Long term potentiation

Answer 19

When neurons become more interconnected. We get smarter. Synapses are strengthened

Question 20

Decay

Answer 20

Don’t use memory— lose it

Rate of forgetting. Most happens the first few days/years

Question 21

Savings

Answer 21

Faster rate of relearning because we slightly remember

Question 22

Interference

Answer 22

Retroactive: new over rides old

Proactive: old over rides new

Question 23

Stable memories

Answer 23

Implicit (riding bike)

Recognition

Question 24

Improving memories

Answer 24

Semantic memory gets better with age

Question 25

Decline of memories with age

Answer 25

Recall

Episodic memory

Processing speed

Divided attention

Question 26

Dementia

Answer 26

Excessive damage to brain tissue

Alzheimer’s: cerebral cortex shrinks, decaying memory, emotions, languages. Amyloid plaques build up.

Korsakoff’s syndrome: memory loss due to alcohol and diet. Brain doesn’t get thymine

Question 27

Semantic networks

Answer 27

A web of everything we know and how it all relates

Question 28

Confabulation

Answer 28

Fabrication of false memories to fill in gaps of other memories (very vivid)

Question 29

Source monitoring errors

Answer 29

Forgetting who/what the source of the memory was

Question 30

Prospective memory

Answer 30

“Remembering to remember”
Remembering to do future events.

Taking a pill each day.

Question 31

Long term potentiation

Long term depression

Synaptic pruning

Answer 31

Strengthening neuron synapses

Weakening of synapses

Actually removing synapses in order to form new, strong ones

Question 32

Source monitoring

Answer 32

The process of remembering the origin of memories

Question 33

Source monitoring error

Answer 33

The process of INCORRECTLY remembering the origin of memories