Unit 5

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

Learning through
-encoding
-storing
-retrieving
information

Question 2

Explicit Memory

Answer 2

-Semantic and Episodic
-Facts, experiences, Non declarative
-EFFORTFUL processing

Question 3

Where are explicit memories stored?

Answer 3

-Hippocampus
-Frontal lobe

Question 4

Implicit memories

Answer 4

-Skills/ Classically conditioned associations
-Space Time Frequency
Non Declarative
Automatic

Question 5

Where are implicit memories stored?

Answer 5

-Cerebellum-Conditioned/Automatic Reflexes
-Basal Ganglia- motor movement

Question 6

Iconic

Answer 6

Sensory memory
-Tenths of a second
-Visual

Question 7

Echoic

Answer 7

-Sensory Memory
-3-4 seconds
-Auditory Stimuli

Question 8

LTP

Answer 8

-Neural Basis for learning
-Neurons released more efficiently creating more connections

Question 9

Information/ Attkins-Shiffrin Model

Answer 9

Encoding, Storage and retrieval through:
Sensory Mem—->STM/WM—>LTM

Question 10

Baddeley/ Maintnence Rehearsal

Answer 10

Working memory is a multi part system
-Language
-Visual semantic
-Short term episodic

Question 11

Semantic memory

Answer 11

-Explicit
-Gen Facts/Knowledge

Question 12

Bush: 3’s of memories

Answer 12

Processing- Encode, Store, Retrieve
Stages-Sensory/ST/LT
Types-Explicit, Implicit, Semantic

Question 13

Episodic Memory

Answer 13

Explicit
-Past events/experiences
-Like an episode

Question 14

Distributed practice

Answer 14

-Spacing Effect
-Massed Practicing
-Testing Effect

Question 15

Forms of Effortful Processing
I’m champ!

Answer 15

Imagery
Mnemonics
Chunking
Hierarchy
Acronym
Mind Palace
Peg Words

Question 16

Shallow vs Deep Processing

Answer 16

Shallow
-Acoustic/Visual
-Rapid Forgetting
Deep
-Semantic
-Meaning/ Durable

Question 17

Serial processing

Answer 17

Performing one operation at a time
Opposite of parelell processing

Question 18

Reterograde amnesia

Answer 18

Can’t remember the past

Question 19

Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 19

Can’t make new memories

Question 20

Reteroactive Interference

Answer 20

New information interfering with remembering past information
(Can’t remember past)

Question 21

Proactive interference

Answer 21

Can’t remember PRESENT information because of past information

Question 22

3 Measures of retention

Answer 22

-Recall
-Recognition
-Relearning

Question 23

Repression

Answer 23

Freud
-Defense Mechanism
-Repressing painful memories to
-maintain Self control
-Minimize anxieties

Question 24

What are the types of encoding?

Answer 24

Visual Acoustic Semantic

Question 25

Ebbinghauss

Answer 25

-Nonsense syllables/Forgetting curve
-showed memory decays rapidly at first and levels off over time

Question 26

Amygdala/Flashbulb Memory

Answer 26

Stress boosts learning
A vivid perfectly lasting memory

Question 27

Overlearning

Answer 27

Number of reps to recall info with perfect accuracy

Question 28

Aplysia

Answer 28

-Sea slugs
-Studied for memory

Question 29

Storage decay

Answer 29

Forgetting is rapid but levels out over time

Question 30

Ecncoding failure

Answer 30

When memory fails to form
-Short term is forgotten

Question 31

What happens to memories in sleep?

Answer 31

They are moved from the hypothalamus to LTM

Question 32

Retrieval Failure

Answer 32

Can’t retrieve from LTM to Working memory
(Tip of the tongue)

Question 33

Imagination and Misinformation Effects

Answer 33

-Imagining events can create false memories
-False info can be incorporated into memory

Question 34

Deja Vu

Answer 34

-Failure of retrieval cues
-Comes from Source Amnesia

Question 35

Source amnesia

Answer 35

Misreclong source of information in memory

Question 36

Context Dependent

Answer 36

-Retrieval Cue
-Being in same context as when Info was learned helps you remember it

Question 37

State Dependent/Mood Congruent

Answer 37

Things learned in a state are best recalled in that state