PSY101 LO9 Key Terms Ch 10

Question 1

A method used to measure unconscious cognitive processes, in which a person is exposed to information and is later tested to see whether the information affects behavior or performance on another task or in another situation.

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Priming

Question 2

Model for memory. You encode information (convert it to a form that the brain can process and use), store the information (retain it over time), and retrieve the information (recover it for use).

Answer 2

Encoding, storage, and retrieval

Question 3

In the three-box model of memory, a limited-capacity memory system involved in the retention of information for brief periods; it is also used to hold information retrieved from long-term memory for temporary use.

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Short-term memory (STM)

Question 4

Memories for the performance of actions or skills (“knowing how”).

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Procedural memories

Question 5

An integrated mental network of knowledge, beliefs, and expectations concerning a particular topic or aspect of the world.

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Cognitive schema

Question 6

A method for measuring retention that compares the time required to relearn material with the time used in the initial learning of the material.

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Relearning method

Question 7

Memories of general knowledge, including facts, rules, concepts, and propositions.

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Semantic memories

Question 8

Memories of facts, rules, concepts, and events (“knowing that”); they include semantic and episodic memories.

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Declarative memories

Question 9

The inability to remember events and experiences that occurred during the first two or three years of life.

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Childhood (infantile) amnesia

Question 10

In psychoanalytic theory, the selective, involuntary pushing of threatening or upsetting information into the unconscious.

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Repression

Question 11

The inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from information you learned about the event elsewhere.

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Source misattribution

Question 12

The ability to identify previously encountered material.

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Recognition

Question 13

Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred.

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Episodic memories

Question 14

Stories composed to simplify and make sense of people’s lives.

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Narratives

Question 15

Capacity to retain and retrieve information.

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Memory

Question 16

The partial or complete loss of memory for important personal information.

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Amnesia

Question 17

In the three-box model of memory, the memory system involved in the long-term storage of information.

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Long-term memory (LTM)