Psych Chapter 5

Question 1

What is interierence?

Answer 1

Old (proactive) or new (retroactive) information interferes with learning or recall.

Question 2

What is encoding failure?

Answer 2

Material not put into LTM

Question 3

define “hippocampus”

Answer 3

Brain area. Involved in processing LTM

Question 4

Define “estrogen”

Answer 4

Improves working memory

Question 5

Define “state dependent Memory”

Answer 5

Easier to recall when in same state when learning occurred.

Question 6

Define “serial position effect”

Answer 6

Recall beginning and ending items in a sequence

Question 7

Define “eyewitness Testimony”

Answer 7

Hypnosis does not improve testimony accuracy

Question 8

Define “long term memory (LTM)”

Answer 8

Permanent or relatively permanent memories

Question 9

Define “recognition”

Answer 9

Memory with retrieval cues

Question 10

According to the text, blank is not a basic process in memory

Answer 10

Recodina

Question 11

What is an example of sensory memory

Answer 11

A brief image of the scene you have just look at

Question 12

What is the primary difference between the concepts of “short term” and “working” memory?

Answer 12

Working memory is an active system, while short term memory is a passive storage system.

Question 13

Which subsystem of long term memory does not require conscious awareness?

Answer 13

non-declarative memory

Question 14

a measure of retention that requires one to remember material without the help of retrieval cues is?

Answer 14

Recall

Question 15

One major problem with eyewitness testimony is that?

Answer 15

False memories can cause eyewitness testimony to be quite inaccurate

Question 16

true or false: as a rule, people’s memories are more accurate under hypnosis

Answer 16

False

Question 17

Remembering exactly what you were doing when a dramatic event occurred is known as a?

Answer 17

Flashbulb memory

Question 18

The ability to retain a visual image several minutes after it has been removed from view is called?

Answer 18

Eidetic imagery

Question 19

When children learn the alphabet, they often are better at learning and recalling the first few (A,B,C,D) and last few (X,Y,Z) letters of the alphabet before learning the letters in between. This is called the?

Answer 19

Serial position effect

Question 20

Information at the beginning of a sequence has a tendency of being recalled because there has been time to rehearse it and encode it into long-term memory. This is an example of?

Answer 20

The primary effect

Question 21

What best explains why drugs such as alcohol and marijuana can interfere with recall if the drugs are taken during learning but not during retrieval?

Answer 21

The state-dependent memory effect

Question 22

This is the term for the inability to form long-term memories of events occurring after brain surgery or a brain injury, although memories formed before the trauma usually remain intact.

Answer 22

Anterograde amnesia

Question 23

The most important factor in forgetting appears to be?

Answer 23

Interference

Question 24

How many cheques early in January do you suppose have the wrong year written on them? Such mistakes happen frequently and the reason for this is?

Answer 24

Proactive interference

Question 25

To minimize interference, it is best to follow learning with?

Answer 25

Sleep

Question 26

Being able to recite a number of nursery rhymes from childhood is probably due mainly to?

Answer 26

Overlearning

Question 27

True or False? : Spacing study over several different sessions generally is more effective than massed practice.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

If you were to ask yourself “why” while you study, you would be engaging in?

Answer 28

Active learning

Question 29

What are the two subsystems?

Answer 29

Declarative memory (explicit) 2. non declarative memory (implicit)

Question 30

Episodic memory contains?

Answer 30

Memory of personal events

Question 31

Semantic memory is?

Answer 31

For objective facts and information

Question 32

Declarative memory (explicit)

Answer 32

Episodic memory and semantic memory

Question 33

Non-declarative memory (implicit)

Answer 33

Motor skills, habits, classically conditioned responses.

Question 34

Motivated forgetting is?

Answer 34

Protect oneself from painful, frightening, unpleasant memories. (Suppression (conscious), repression (unconscious), amnesia)