Psy chapter 6

Question 1

Encoding

Answer 1

Transforming information into a form you can remember because you have to understand what you hear in order to remember it.

Question 2

Storage

Answer 2

Maintaining information in memory.

Question 3

Retrieval

Answer 3

Finding what you have learned in your brain.

Question 4

Short- Term Memory

Answer 4

Briefly holds information in your head using your senses.

Question 5

Short -Term Memory/ Displacement

Answer 5

Occurs when short term memory is full and new information pushes out older information.

Question 6

Short- Term Memory/Chunking

Answer 6

Grouping smaller information into larger groups.

Question 7

Long-Term Memory/Declarative Memory

Answer 7

Stores facts, information, and personal life events..

Can remember verbally or in the form of images.

Question 8

Long-Term Memory/ Episodic Memory

Answer 8

Remembering events subjectively or events that have changed over time.

Question 9

Long-Term Memory/ Semantic Memory

Answer 9

General knowledge facts, or information that does not change.

Question 10

Short-Term Memory/ Rehearsal

Answer 10

Practicing information over and over again.

Question 11

Long-Term Memory/ mnemonics

Answer 11

An acronym or a rhyme that is easy to remember.

Question 12

Long-Term Memory/ Flashbulb memory

Answer 12

A shocking or scary memory that you always remember

Question 13

Reconstruction

Answer 13

The process of remembering and building up your memories

Question 14

Positive bias

Answer 14

Remembering pleasant memories more than unpleasant memories. Turning bad memories into something positive.

Question 15

Ebbinghaus

Answer 15

discovered the curve of Forgetting

Question 16

Cure of Forgetting

Answer 16

Pattern of forgetting. Once we learn something, forgetting happens right away. Otherwise we forget at a slower pace.

Question 17

6 reasons we forget

Answer 17

Encoding failure, decay, interference consolidation failure, motivated forgetting, perspective forgetting, and retrieval failure

Question 18

Encoding Failure

Answer 18

Information that was never stored in your brain

Question 19

Decay

Answer 19

Unused information fades away over time.

Question 20

Interference

Answer 20

when something gets in the way of your learning.

Question 21

Consolidation Failure

Answer 21

When your long term memory isn’t working after a bad car accident.

Question 22

Motivated Forgetting

Answer 22

When you want to forget something bad that happened

Question 23

Perspective Forgetting

Answer 23

Forgetting to do something that you know you are supposed to do like homework or going to an appointment.

Question 24

Retrieval Failure

Answer 24

Not remembering something that you are positive you know.

Question 25

Hippocampus

Answer 25

Where memory is located in your brain

Question 26

2 kinds of memory loss

Answer 26

amnesia and dementia

Question 27

Amnesia

Answer 27

Partial or complete loss of memory from brain damage, a bad car accident, or loss of consciousness.

Question 28

2 Types of Amnesia

Answer 28

Anterograde amnesia and Retrograde amnesia

Question 29

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 29

When you can’t form long-term memories after brain trauma.

Question 30

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 30

You can’t remember what happened shortly before brain trauma.

Question 31

Dementia

Answer 31

When your brain, personality, and behavior slowly deteriorate.