Memory

Question 1

Serial Position Effect

Answer 1

occurs when someone attempts to memorize a series, such as a list

Question 2

Primacy effect

Answer 2

Remembers things from beginning of list

Question 3

Recency Effect

Answer 3

Remember things from ending of list

Question 4

Dual Coding Hypothesis

Answer 4

Remember words with images

Question 5

Method of Loci

Answer 5

Method of recall in which it is in a specific location

Question 6

Self Reference Effect

Answer 6

Easier to remember when applies to you

Question 7

Chunking

Answer 7

Strategy in which info is organized into discrete group of data (Ex: Phone numbers)

Question 8

Short Term Memory Recall Capacity

Answer 8

7 + or - 2

Question 9

Where are short term memories stored

Answer 9

hippocampus

Question 10

Where are working memories stored

Answer 10

prefrontal cortex

Question 11

Two types of Long Term Memory

Answer 11

Explicit (Declarative) and Implicit (Non-Declarative)

Question 12

Explicit (Declarative) Memory

Answer 12

Long Term and Factual. Can be episodic (events) or semantic (gen knowledge, fact). Stored in hippocampus

Question 13

Implicit (Non-Declarative) Memory

Answer 13

Long Term. Procedural in Nature. (Ex riding a bike)

Question 14

What memory is stored in Cerebellum

Answer 14

learning skills and conditioned responses

Question 15

Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 15

Old material interferes with recall of new material

Question 16

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 16

New material interferes with recall of old material

Question 17

Proactive Interference

Answer 17

When info previously learned interferes with ability to recall info learned later

Question 18

Retroactive Interference

Answer 18

Newly learned info interferes with info learned previously

Question 19

Positive Transfer

Answer 19

Old info facilitates learning of new info