new vocabulary

Question 1

what is articulacy suppression

Answer 1

A technique for disrupting verbal rehearsal by requiring participants to continuously repeat a spoken item
while presenting the letters visually,
people can still remember up
to four or five items

Question 2

free recall

Answer 2

A method whereby participants are presented with a sequence of items which they are
subsequently required to recall in any order
they wish.

Question 3

gestalt psychology

Answer 3

: An approach to psychology
that was strong in Germany in the 1930s and that
attempted to use perceptual principles to
understand memory and reasoning.

Question 4

schema

Answer 4

Proposed by Bartlett to explain how
our knowledge of the world is structured and
influences the way in which new information is
stored and subsequently recalled

Question 5

masking

Answer 5

A process by which the perception and/
or storage of a stimulus is influenced by events
occurring immediately before presentation
(forward masking) or more commonly after (backward masking).
example: A subsequent experiment (Sperling, 1963)
found that the brighter the light during the
interval, the poorer the performance, suggesting that the light is interfering with the
memory trace in some way, a process known
as masking.

Question 6

episodic buffer

Answer 6

component of Baddeley and Hitch’s Model of Working Memory.
This model holds say human memory functions are interactive system with a Central Executive function that coordinates the activities of three subordinate or “slave” systems.

Question 7

verbal learning

Answer 7

associated w/ memorization and retention of lists of words, in order to describe basic elements of associative learning.

Question 8

shallow vs deep encoding

Answer 8

shallow: process information, like words by the way they appear, or phonemically, by the way they sound.
deep: Semantic processing, which happens when we encode the meaning of a word and relate it to similar words with similar meaning. more meaningful

Question 9

aquisition

Answer 9

the first stages of learning, when a response is established.

Question 10

SOP

Answer 10

suggests that the UCS elicits two unconditioned responses—a primary A1 component and a secondary A2 component. The primary A1 component is elicited rapidly by the UCS and decays quickly after the UCS ends.
In contrast, the onset and decay of the secondary A2 component is gradual.

Question 11

short term memory

Answer 11

retention of small amounts of material over
periods of a few seconds