Psych 100: Ch 7.1

Question 0

Free Recall

Answer 0

To produce a response, as you do on essay tests or short-answer tests

Question 1

Recognition

Answer 1

Someone chooses the correct item among several options

Question 2

Cued Recall

Answer 2

You receive significant hints about the material

Question 3

Savings Method

or relearning method

Answer 3

Detect weak memories by comparing the speed of original learning to the speed of relearning

Question 4

Explicit Memory

or direct

Answer 4

Someone who states an answer regards it as a product of memory

Question 5

Implicit Memory

or indirect memory

Answer 5

An experience influences what you say or do even though you might not be aware of the influence

Question 6

Procedural Memories

Answer 6

Memories of how to do something

Question 7

Declarative Memories

Answer 7

Memories we can readily state in words

Question 8

Memory

Answer 8

The retention of information

Question 9

Priming

Answer 9

Reading or hearing a word temporarily primes that word and increases the chance that you will use it yourself

Question 10

Information-Processing Model

Answer 10

Compares human memory to that of a computer: information that enters the system is processed, coded, and stored

Question 11

Short-Term Memory

Answer 11

Temporary storage of recent events

Question 12

Long-Term Memory

Answer 12

A relatively permanent store

Question 13

Semantic Memory

Answer 13

Memory of principles and facts

Question 14

Episodic Memory

Answer 14

Memory for specific events in your life

Question 15

Source Amnesia

Answer 15

Forgetting where or how you learned something

Question 16

Chunking

Answer 16

Grouping items into meaningful sequences or clusters

Question 17

Consolidation

Answer 17

Converting a short-term memory into a long-term memory

Question 18

Working Memory

Answer 18

A system for working with current information

Question 19

Executive Functioning

Answer 19

Governs shifts of attention