Quiz 3 (ch. 8)

Question 1

explicit mem

Answer 1

knowledge or experiences that can be consciously remembered

Question 2

episodic mem

Answer 2

firsthand experi

ex. high school graduation day

Question 3

semantic mem

Answer 3

knowledge of facts and concepts about the world

ex. know 1*8= 8

Question 4

recall mem test

Answer 4

measure of explicit mem

involves bringing stuff from mem info that has been previously been remembered

Question 5

recognition mem test

Answer 5

measures explicit mem

whether info has been seen or learned before

Question 6

relearning

Answer 6

determine how much more quickly info learned when studied in the past

Question 7

implicit mem

Answer 7

influence of experi on beh

even if not aware
3 types- procedural, classical cond and priming

Question 8

procedural mem

Answer 8

unexplainably knowledge of how to do things

ex. play basketball

Question 9

classical condit

Answer 9

associ. neutral stim w another stim = natural response

Question 10

priming

Answer 10

changes in behavior as a result of experiences that have happened frequently or recently.

Question 11

sensory mem

Answer 11

buffer

brief storage

Question 12

iconic mem

Answer 12

visual
sperling
ex. letter remembering

Question 13

echoic mem

Answer 13

auditory

Question 14

STM

Answer 14

less than one min

way process info = working mem

Question 15

spacing effect

Answer 15

learn better with breaks

Question 16

primary effect

Answer 16

remember stim presented early on

Question 17

recency effect

Answer 17

remember stim presented later in list

Question 18

retroactive interference

Answer 18

learning new impairs ability retrieve old info

Question 19

proactive interference

Answer 19

early learning impairs ability encode info try to learn later

Question 20

schemas

Answer 20

patterns of knowl. in LTM help organize

Question 21

Long term potentiation

Answer 21

strengthening synaptic conn. btw neurons

result of frequ. stim

Question 22

retrograde amnesia

Answer 22

inabil retrieve events occurred before given time

Question 23

anterograde amnesia

Answer 23

not transfer info from STM to LTM

*can’t make new mem.

Question 24

sleeper effect

Answer 24

attitude change over time when forget source of info

Question 25

functional fixedness

Answer 25

schemas prevent using object in new and nontraditional ways

Question 26

confirmation bias

Answer 26

confirm existing mem rather than challenging them