Unit 6-9

Question 1

Interference

Answer 1

Retroactive: difficulty recalling old info because of new info

Proactive: difficulty recalling new info because of old info

Question 2

Behavioral therapy

Answer 2

Studying behavior without reference to different mental processes

Question 3

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 3

An inability to form new memories

Question 4

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 4

An inability to retrieve info from ones past

Question 5

Proactive interference

Answer 5

The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new info

Question 6

Retroactive interference

Answer 6

The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old info

Question 7

Source amnesia

Answer 7

Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined (source misattribution)

Question 8

Repression

Answer 8

The basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety- arousing thongs, feelings, and memories

Question 9

Chunking

Answer 9

Organizing items into familiars, manageable units; often automatically

Question 10

Schemas

Answer 10

Describes a pattern or thoughts or behavior that organizes categories of info

Question 11

Rehearsal

Answer 11

Cognitive process in which info is repeated over and over as a possible way of learning and remembering it

Question 12

General intelligence

Answer 12

According to spearman and others underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test

Question 13

Latent

Answer 13

The unconscious, unintended, beneficial, unintended and harmful (applied to memories/below the surface)

Question 14

Manifest

Answer 14

Conscious, deliberate, and beneficial (above the surface)

Question 15

Serial position effect

Answer 15

Ability to recall something based on frequency