Unit 7 vocabulary (Memory)

Question 1

Amnesia

Answer 1

Loss of memory

Question 2

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 2

Can’t form new memories

Question 3

Chunking

Answer 3

Putting items into units for memorization

Question 4

Decay theory

Answer 4

Memory fades over time

Question 5

Declarative memory

Answer 5

Memory of facts

Question 6

Elaborative rehearsal

Answer 6

Memorizing meaning of a term

Instead of term itself

Question 7

Encoding specificity principal

Answer 7

Memory increases when information is at encoding and retrieval

Question 8

Episodic memory

Answer 8

Collection of happenings at a time or place

Question 9

Explicit memory

Answer 9

Memory of facts

Question 10

Flashbulb memories

Answer 10

Vivid memories of emotionally significant happenings

Question 11

Implicit memory

Answer 11

Memorizing things without realizing it

Question 12

Long-term memory

Answer 12

Relatively permanent storehouse of the memory system

Question 13

Long-term potential

Answer 13

Increase in cell’s firing potential after short but rapid stimulation

Question 14

Maintenance rehearsal

Answer 14

Repeatedly verbalizing or thinking about information

Question 15

Memory

Answer 15

Learning through encoding, storage, and retrieval

Question 16

Mnemonic device

Answer 16

Memory aids (like vivid imagery)

Question 17

Motivated forgetting

Answer 17

A way for people to forget unwanted memories

Question 18

Primary effect

Answer 18

Beginning and end or most remembered

Question 19

Priming

Answer 19

Associations creating different memories or perceptions

Question 20

Proactive interference

Answer 20

Prior learning disrupting recall of new information

Question 21

Procedural memory

Answer 21

Motor skills in long-term memory

Question 22

Recall

Answer 22

When one has to find info in long-term memory

Question 23

Recognition

Answer 23

When one has to recognize information

Question 24

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 24

inability to know information about past

Question 25

Semantic memory

Answer 25

Part of long-term memory for non-personal experience

Question 26

Sensory memory

Answer 26

Brief recording of sensory information in memory system (first part of system)

Question 27

Serial position effect

Answer 27

No last and first best

Question 28

Source amnesia

Answer 28

Forgetting where the memory comes from

Question 29

State dependent memory

Answer 29

Same state of consciousness increases memory recall

Question 30

Storage

Answer 30

Storing encoded messages

Question 31

Suggestibility

Answer 31

Alterability of memories with false information

Question 32

Working memory

Answer 32

Using short-term memory consciously