Memory Forming Process - Unit 2

Question 1

Iconic memory

Answer 1

Fleeting visual images

Question 2

Echoic Memory

Answer 2

Auditory signals

Question 3

Short-term Memory

Answer 3

Activated memory that holds a few items briefly.

Question 4

Long-term Memory

Answer 4

Relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of memory system.

Question 5

First step Information Processing Model

Answer 5

Encoding: Get information in

Question 6

Second step of information processing model

Answer 6

Storing: store information

Question 7

Third step in information processing model

Answer 7

Retrieving: get information back (recall)

Question 8

Parallel processing model

Answer 8

Processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously.

Question 9

Working Memory

Answer 9

Area of high speed memory used to store programs or data currently in use.

Question 10

Automatic processing

Answer 10

Unconscious encoding of incidental information.

Question 11

Procedural/implicit memory

Answer 11

Retention independent of conscious recollection. Located in basal ganglia and cerebellum. (muscle memory)

Question 12

Effortful Though Processing

Answer 12

Conscious Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.

Question 13

Explicit Memory

Answer 13

Memory or facts and experiences that one can consciously know and “declare”.

Question 14

Semantic Encoding

Answer 14

Meaning of something is encoded as opposed to the sound or vision of it.

Question 15

Prospective Memory

Answer 15

Remembering to perform actions in the future.

Question 16

Retrospective Memory

Answer 16

Remembering events from the past or previously learned information.

Question 17

Semantic Memory

Answer 17

Impersonal memories that are drawn from everyday, common kinds of knowledge.

Question 18

Episodic Memory

Answer 18

Story of our lives and experiences that we can recall and tell someone.

Question 19

Flashbulb Memories

Answer 19

Refer to emotionally intense events that become as a vivid-seeming memory.