Memory and Language-Random from all lectures

Question 1

Iconic Memory

Answer 1

Memory for vision

Question 2

Echoic Memory

Answer 2

Memory for Hearing

Question 3

Haptic Memory

Answer 3

Memory for Touch

Question 4

Olfactory Memory

Answer 4

Memory for smell

Question 5

Gustatory Memory

Answer 5

Memory for taste

Question 6

Talking fast=better Memory

Answer 6

Coorelation between articulation rate (fast talking) and memory span (better memory)

Question 7

Forgetting

Answer 7

Failure to retrieve something

Question 8

Generation effect

Answer 8

better memory if you come up with the answer yourself instead of being told/read it

Question 9

Mere exposure effect

Answer 9

Something seen more often is seen as more pleasant

Question 10

Retrieval cues

Answer 10

bits of information that allows access to memory trace

Question 11

Trace-dependent forgetting

Answer 11

The memory is no longer there

Question 12

Cue-dependent forgetting

Answer 12

the memory is stil there, but you can’t retrieve it (due to a bad/incorrect cue)

Question 13

Proactive Interference

Answer 13

Previous learning interferes with later learning (too many previous memories, so you can’t make more)

Question 14

Retroactive Interference

Answer 14

Later learning interfers with previous lerning (the new memories replaces the older ones)

Question 15

Source Amnesia

Answer 15

Forgetting the true source of the memory

Question 16

Sleeper effect

Answer 16

Info from an unreliable source, which initially was discounted, later gains credibility because the source is forgotten

Question 17

Consistency bias

Answer 17

Memories distorted by current beliefs, values, mood, expectations

Question 18

Method of Loci

Answer 18

Mnemonic Device; Ideas are associated with a place

Question 19

Peg-word system

Answer 19

Mnemonic Device; peg word associated with ideas/words to be learned

Question 20

Narrative chaining

Answer 20

Mnemonic Device; make up a short meaningful story with the material that needs to be learned

Question 21

Word Association

Answer 21

Mnemonic Device; verbal associations are created for items to be learned

Question 22

Mental Walk

Answer 22

Mnemonic Device; place items along a familar path

Question 23

Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 23

no new memories can be formed

Question 24

classical Conditioning of Skeletal Musculature

Answer 24

Located in the cerebellum

Question 25

classical Conditioning of Emotional Responses

Answer 25

Located in the Amygdala

Question 26

Habit Learning

Answer 26

Located in the Striatum

Question 27

Perceptual Priming

Answer 27

Located in the early-stage cortical areas (the area is dependent on what the primed stimuls is)