psych chapter 10

Question 1

source misattribution

Answer 1

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

Question 2

confabulation

Answer 2

confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened

Question 3

explicit memory

Answer 3

conscious intention recollection of an event or of an item of information

Question 4

recall

Answer 4

the ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material

Question 5

recognition

Answer 5

the ability to identify previously encountered material

Question 6

implicit memory

Answer 6

unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or previously encountered information on current thoughts or actions

Question 7

re learning method

Answer 7

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

Question 8

parallel distributed processing model

Answer 8

a model of memory in which knowledge is represented as connections among thousands of interacting processing units, distributed in a vast network and all operating in parallel

Question 9

sensory register

Answer 9

a memory system that momentarily preserves extremely accurate images of sensory information

Question 10

short term memory

Answer 10

in the three box model of memory a limited capacity memory system involved in the retention of information for brief periods. its also used to hold information retrieved form long term memory to temporary use

Question 11

working memory

Answer 11

in many models of memory, a cognitively complex form of short term memory, it involves active mental processes that control retrieval of information form long term memory and interpret that information appropriately for a given task

Question 12

long term memory

Answer 12

in the three box model of memory the memory system involved in the long term storage of information

Question 13

procedural memories

Answer 13

memories for the performance of actions or skills

Question 14

declarative memories

Answer 14

memories of facts, rules, concepts and events

Question 15

semantic memories

Answer 15

memories of general knowledge including fats, rules, concepts and propositions.

Question 16

episodic memories

Answer 16

memories of personally experienced events and teh contexts in which they occurred

Question 17

serial positing effect

Answer 17

the tendency for recall of the first and last items on the list to surpass recall of items in the middle of the list .

Question 18

long term potentiation

Answer 18

a long lasting increase in the strength of synaptic responsiveness, thought to be a biological mechanism of long term memory

Question 19

consolidation

Answer 19

the process by which a long term memory becomes durable and relatively stable.

Question 20

maintenance rehearsal

Answer 20

rote reception of material in order to maintaining its availability in memory

Question 21

deep processing

Answer 21

in the encoding of information the processing of meaning rather than simply the physical or sensory features of stimulus

Question 22

decay theory

Answer 22

the theory that information in memory eventually disappears if it is not accessed, it applies better to short term than to long term memory.

Question 23

retroactive interference

Answer 23

forgetting that occurs when recently learned material interferes with the ability to remember similar material stored previously

Question 24

proactive interference

Answer 24

forgetting that occurs when previously stored material interferes with the ability to remember similar, more recently learned material

Question 25

cue-dependent forgetting

Answer 25

the inability to retrieve information stored in memory because of insufficient cues for recall.

Question 26

state dependent memory

Answer 26

the tendency to remember something when the rememberer is in the same physical or mental state as during the original experience or learning

Question 27

mood congruent memory

Answer 27

the tendency to remember experiences that are consistent with ones current mood and overlook or forget experience that are not.

Question 28

repression

Answer 28

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