Psych 100: Ch 7.2

Question 0

Recency Effect

Answer 0

The tendency to remember the final items

Question 1

Primacy Effect

Answer 1

The tendency to remember well the first items

Question 2

Depth-of-Processing Principle

Answer 2

How easily you retrieve a memory depends on the number and types of associations you form

Question 3

Retrieval Cues

Answer 3

Reminders

Question 4

Encoding Specificity Principle

Answer 4

The associations you form at the time of learning will be the most effective retrieval cues later

Question 5

Mnemonic Device

Answer 5

Any memory aid based on encoding items in a special way

Question 6

Method of Loci

method of places

Answer 6

First, you memorize a series of places, and then you use a vivid image to associate each location with something you want to remember

Question 7

Hypermnesia

Answer 7

Gain of memory over time

Question 8

Reconstruction

Answer 8

During an experience, you construct a memory. When you try to retrieve that memory, you reconstruct an account based partly on surviving memories and partly on your expectations of what must have happened

Question 9

Hindsight Bias

Answer 9

The tendency to mold our recollection of the past to fit how events later turned out