Memory Systems

Question 1

What is short-term memory?

Answer 1

Transient and temporary information store before moving into long-term memory

Question 2

What’s Miller’s magic number 7+/-2?

Answer 2

Amount of information that can be held in working memory

Question 3

What is chunking?

Answer 3

Grouping information into meaningful units

Question 4

Baddeley’s working memory model

Answer 4

Central executive controls slave systems phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad for maintaining information

Question 5

Evidence for phonological loop

Answer 5

remember more words if monosyllabic, and less when more syllables (repeat words to self)

Question 6

What two are spared in amnesia?

Answer 6

Skill learning

Priming effects

Question 7

Explicit memory is _____________ memory. It is _________ in amnesia and ___________ on MTL binding

Answer 7

Conscious; knowing that; declarative
Impaired
Depends

Question 8

Implicit memory is _____________ memory. It is _________ in amnesia and ___________ on MTL binding

Answer 8

Unconscious; knowing how; procedural
Spared
Does not depend

Question 9

Semantic Memory

Answer 9

Facts, general knowledge

Question 10

Episodic Memory

Answer 10

One’s own experience

Question 11

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 11

Condition that prevents him from forming new memories

Question 12

Hippocampus

Answer 12

Part of medial temporal lobe
Responsible for forming new memories
Evidence: case study with HM

Question 13

Partial-report procedure

Answer 13

Participants cued to report only a portion of the entire display