PSY CHP.8

Question 1

Those we consciously try to recall

Answer 1

Explicit memory

Question 2

Those we act on without conscious awareness

Answer 2

Implicit memory

Question 3

Blank
-Memories of common procedures
-Most accessed blank
-Highly robust to amnesia

Answer 3

Procedural/implicitly

Question 4

Blank-stores facts and general information

Answer 4

Declarative

Question 5

Blank memory- autobiographical memory of things that we have personally experienced

Answer 5

Episodic

Question 6

Blank memory- memory of general knowledge

Answer 6

Semantic

Question 7

Memory is blank-dependent and more connections=blank memory

Answer 7

Cue-dependent/Stronger

Question 8

Blank encoding involves connecting the new memory to more existent memories

Answer 8

Elaborative

Question 9

Retrieval is enhanced by activating as many connected nodes as possible. What effect is this?

Answer 9

Tip of the tongue effect

Question 10

Regarding improving remembering, use blank rehearsal instead of blank rehearsal

Answer 10

elaborative/rote

Question 11

Memory is blank dependent more connections=stronger memory

Answer 11

cue dependent

Question 12

To improve remembering use blank rehearsal instead of blank rehearsal

Answer 12

elaborative/rote

Question 13

Blank memories are highly rich, highly detailed memories of a significant moment in your life

Answer 13

Flashbullb

Question 14

When attended to, sensory memories enter blank memory aka blank memory

Answer 14

short term/working

Question 15

More likely to remember stuff at beginning or end of list

Answer 15

serial-position effect

Question 16

Blank rehearsal can transfer info rom STM to long term memory

Answer 16

Elaborative

Question 17

Blank encoding involves connecting the new memory to more existent memories

Answer 17

Elaborative

Question 18

Use blank rehearsal instead of blank rehearsal

Answer 18

elaborative/rote

Question 19

We store memories within blank, or scripts

Answer 19

schemas

Question 20

Blank showed all participants footage of the same car wreck, then asked How fast were the cars going when they _____ each other?

Answer 20

Loftus

Question 21

Blank-inability to learn new memories (more common form)

Answer 21

anterograde

Question 22

blank-inability to recall old memories (less common form)

Answer 22

retrograde

Question 23

Blank interference
recently learned material interferes with the ability to remember similar older material

Answer 23

Retroactive

Question 24

Blank interference
older material interferes with the ability to remember similar, more recently learned material

Answer 24

Proactive

Question 25

Blank-dependent forgetting
memories still exist, but you lack the cues to activate tem in the conceptual network

Answer 25

Cue

Question 26

Blank of memories
As in eyewitness testimony, new or distorted information replaces accurate information

Answer 26

Replacement

Question 27

Blank theory
-memory decay over time
-However, time by itself is not a factor

Answer 27

Decay

Question 28

How to improve eyewitness testimony?
Use blank blind procedure for lineups

Answer 28

double

Question 29

effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to creation of false memories

Answer 29

suggestibility

Question 30

physical trace of memory

Answer 30

engram

Question 31

memory error in which you confuse the source of your information

Answer 31

misattribution

Question 32

memory aids that help organize information for encoding

Answer 32

mnemonic device

Question 33

effects of misinformation from external sources that leads to the creation of false memories

Answer 33

suggestibility

Question 33

formulation of new memories

Answer 33

construction

Question 34

exceptionally clear recollection of an important event

Answer 34

flashbulb memory

Question 35

lapses in memory that are caused by breaks in attention or our focus being somewhere else.