Memory

Question 1

The sensory registers

Answer 1

Raw info collected by sensory systems

Question 2

Visual memory-icon

Answer 2

Visual image held in visual register

Question 3

Visual memory- masking

Answer 3

New info replaced old in under .25 sec

Question 4

Hearing memory - echo

Answer 4

Auditory memory in temporal lobe

Question 5

Hearing - initial processing

Answer 5

We select some info for further processing

Question 6

Hearing - attention

Answer 6

Selecting specific info from a variety of possible inputs

Question 7

Filter theory of attention

Answer 7

1. ) need
2. ) novelty
3. ) interest
4. ) emotion

Question 8

Short term memory

Answer 8

Aka: working memory
Hippocampus
It is our Consciousness

Question 9

STM- capacity

Answer 9

Can hold as much as can be repeated in 1.5-2 secs

7+ or -2 pieces of info

Question 10

STM- Duration

Answer 10

Lasts about 20 secs if work is not done to maintain it

Question 11

STM- encoding

Answer 11

Info sorted by type and relevance

Visual encoding capacity may exceed phonological

Question 12

Decay theory

Answer 12

Passing of time causes the strength of memory to fade

Question 13

Consolidation

Answer 13

Strengthening of a memory for LT storage

Question 14

Rote rehearsal

Answer 14

Aka maintenance

Repeating the info to keep it in STM

Peoples first memonic device

Question 15

Elaborative rehearsal

Answer 15

Relating new info to something we know

Question 16

Recall

Answer 16

Increase in recall in the beginning info and the ending info w/o delay.

Question 17

Retroactive interference

Answer 17

New info gets in the way of old info

Question 18

Proactive interference

Answer 18

Old info gets in the way of new

Question 19

LTM - semantic

Answer 19

General facts and word meaning

Question 20

Episodic - LTM

Answer 20

Events that have specific meaning

Question 21

Ebbinghaus- spacing effect

Answer 21

Learning is greater when studying is spread out over time not crammed

Question 22

Explicit memory

Answer 22

Memory you can express in words

Question 23

Implicit memory

Answer 23

You can’t express in words

Question 24

State dependent learning

Answer 24

Mental state that one is in when you experience something that acts as a memory cue

Question 25

Bartlett’s schema theory

Answer 25

People use schema to organize and present episodes

Question 26

Confabulation

Answer 26

When you remember part of an episode and you fill in the holes with what makes sense on your schema

Question 27

Infantile amnesia

Answer 27

1. ) brain isn’t fully developed
2. ) little to no language
3. ) few schema to help organize
4. ) no timeline

Question 28

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 28

When the brain is damaged you might take out the memory from the hippocampus and you won’t remember what happened before the injury

Question 29

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 29

Problem making new memories

Question 30

Hysterical amnesia (repression)

Answer 30

Some even might be so disturbing that it is blocked from recall

Question 31

Eidetic memory

Answer 31

Photographic memory

Question 32

Hyperthymesia

Answer 32

Perfect memory

Question 33

Basal forebrain

Answer 33

Binds various pieces together

Question 34

Kordalcoff’s syndrome

Answer 34

Lack vitamin b and thiamine

Thalamus and hippocampus are much smaller

Question 35

SQ3R method

Answer 35

Survey- outline entire situation 
Question- ask what you should know
Read for detail 
Recite in your own words 
Review- relate to own life