Memory Storage and Retrieval - (Module 31, 32)

Question 1

Automatic Processing

Answer 1

Unconscious encoding of the incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information.

Does not involve effort

Question 2

Mnemonics

Answer 2

Acronym for each word in a sentence.

Ex. King Henry Died by Drinking Chocolate Milk.

Question 3

Chunking

Answer 3

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units, includes acronyms.

Ex ROY G BIV

Question 4

Methods of Loci

Answer 4

Items are mentally associated with specific physical locations.

Question 5

Spacing Effect

Answer 5

By distributing practice, you are able to remember things better than through mass practice.

Question 6

Testing Effect

Answer 6

Enhanced memory after retrieving (test yourself as you go).

Question 7

Shallow Processing

Answer 7

Encoding on structure or appearance of words.

Question 8

Deep Processing

Answer 8

Encoding on the meaning of words (semantic encoding), best retention.

Question 9

Semantic Encoding

Answer 9

The meaning of something is encoded.

Question 10

Hippocampus

Answer 10

Processes explicit (declarative) memories.

Question 11

Flashbulb Memory

Answer 11

Highly emotional moments may give rise to a clear, strong, and persistent memory, not free from errors.

Question 12

Cerebellum

Answer 12

Processes implicit (procedural) memories.

Question 13

Long Term Potentiation (LTP)

Answer 13

Increase in a synapses’ firing potential.

Question 14

Priming

Answer 14

An individual’s exposure to a certain stimulus influences his or her response to a different stimulus, without any awareness of the connection.

Question 15

Retrieval Cue

Answer 15

Any word, place, emotion that triggers a memory.

Question 16

Recognition

Answer 16

Identifying an item amongst other choices.

Ex. A multiple choice test

Question 17

Recall

Answer 17

Accessing your memory, remembering the information or events that were previously encoded and stored in the brain.

Question 18

Relearning

Answer 18

Assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time through comparison.

Question 19

Déjà vu

Answer 19

Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier similar experience.