Mod 25

Question 1

primary: triggering which memories

Answer 1

get used

Question 2

serial position effect: … and … effects on what is most easily recalled

Answer 2

primacy; recency

Question 3

recall: some people, through practice, visual strategies, or biological differences, have the ability to store and recall thousands of … or .., reproducing them later
recognition: the avg person can view .. new faces and places, and later can notice with … percent accuracy which ones they’ve seen before
relearning: some people are unable to form new memories, especially of …; although they would not recall a puzzle-solving lesson, they might still solve the puzzle… each lesson

Answer 3

words; digits; 2500; 90; episodes; faster

Question 4

our storage and recall capacity is virtually …

Answer 4

unlimited

Question 5

our capacity for recognition is greater than our capacity for

Answer 5

recall

Question 6

relearning can highlight that memories are there even if we can’t

Answer 6

recall forming them

Question 7

in the late 1800s, Hermann Ebbinghaus studied another measure of memory functioning: how much time did it take to … and regain … of material?

Answer 7

relearn; mastery

Question 8

Ebbinghaus studied the memorization of … so that … of processing or … would not be a factor. the more he rehearsed out loud ond ay 1, the less time he needed to relearn/ memorize the same letters on day 2

Answer 8

nonsense syllables; depth; prelearning

Question 9

memory is stored as a … of associations: …, …, …

Answer 9

web; conceptual; contextual; emotional

Question 10

priming: retrieval is affected by activating our

Answer 10

associations

Question 11

priming triggers a thread of associations that bring us to a …, our minds work by having one idea ..; this maintains a flow of thought

Answer 11

concept; trigger another

Question 12

priming has been called … because it affects us …

Answer 12

invisible memory; unconsciously

Question 13

we may have … and … stored in memory that also influence our choices

Answer 13

biases; assoications

Question 14

context-dependent memory: part of the web of associations of a memory is the …

Answer 14

context

Question 15

we retrieve a memory more easily when in the … as when we formed the memory

Answer 15

same context

Question 16

state-dependent memory: our memories are not just linked to the external context in which we learned them. they can also be tied to the … we were in when we formed the memory

Answer 16

emotional state

Question 17

mood-congruent memory refers to the tendency to … that are consistent with one’s current mood –> this biased memory then ..

Answer 17

selectively recall details; reinforces our current modo

Question 18

memories can be linked to. ..

Answer 18

physiological states

Question 19

priming and context cues are not the only factors which make memory retrieval selective. the serial position effect refers tot he tendency, when learning information in a long list, to more likely recall the .. items (… effect) and the …items (… effect)

Answer 19

first; primacy; last; recency