Week 11

Question 1

Method of Loci

Answer 1

Method of memory enhancement that uses visual information to organize and recall information. Items are remembered based of associations with specific locations

Question 2

3 Components of memory

Answer 2

Encoding
Storage
Retrival

Question 3

Encoding

Answer 3

The process by which perceptions, thoughts and feelings are transformed into memory

Question 4

Storage

Answer 4

The process maintaining information in memory overtime

Question 5

Retrival

Answer 5

The process by which information that was previously encoded and stored is brought to mind

Question 6

Schema

Answer 6

Metal framework or body of knowledge that organizes and synthesizes information about a person/place/thing

Question 7

Types of processing

Answer 7

Structural
Acoustic
Sematic

Question 8

Structural

Answer 8

When participant though about words appearance

Question 9

Acoustic

Answer 9

Thought about sound

Question 10

Sematic

Answer 10

Thought about their meaning

Question 11

Levels of processing effect

Answer 11

The strength of the memory trace (degree to which it has been encoded to be stored and retrieved) depends on how extensively the information is processed at encoding

Question 12

Elaborative encoding

Answer 12

Actively relating new knowledge to knowledge already stored in memory

Question 13

Chunking

Answer 13

Grouping items in memory, such that individual terms are grouped into larger assemblies

Question 14

Mnemonics

Answer 14

Special techniques/strategies consciously employed in an attempt to use memory

Question 15

Two types of sensory memory

Answer 15

Auditory

Visual

Question 16

Auditory (ethoic)

Answer 16

Form of sensory memory for sounds that have just been perceived

Question 17

Visual (iconic)

Answer 17

Form of sensory memory that holds a brief visual image of a scene that has just been perceived

Question 18

Maintenance rehearsal

Answer 18

Role of repetition of the information; repeating a given item over and over again

Question 19

Photological short term memory

Answer 19

Short term memory for verbal information

Question 20

Primacy effect

Answer 20

Tendency to remember earlier information in a series of information

Question 21

Recency effect

Answer 21

Tendency to recall later information in a series of information

Question 22

Serial position curve

Answer 22

Plots memorability as a function of position in the list

Question 23

N-back task

Answer 23

Task in which items are presented one at a time and participants must identify each item that represents relative to the item that occured

Question 24

Types of Long-Term Memory

Answer 24

Explicit

Implicit

Question 25

Explicit

Answer 25

Memory that can be fully described verbally and of which a person is consciously aware

Question 26

Implicit

Answer 26

Memory that cannot be fully described verbally, and which a person may be completely or partially unaware of

Question 27

Procedural memory

Answer 27

Type of long term memory that involves execution of well learned skills

Question 28

Episodic memory

Answer 28

Type of long term memory that serves as a record of our life’s experiences

Question 29

Semantic memory

Answer 29

Type of long term memory that contains data, facts and other information

Question 30

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 30

Disorder caused by brain damage that disrupts a person’s ability to form new long term memories after the time of brain damage

Question 31

Declarative memory

Answer 31

Conscious forms of memory, such as retrieving memory for facts and events

Question 32

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 32

Disorder caused by brain damage that disrupts a person’s ability to remember events that occurred before the time of damage

Question 33

Retrieval cue

Answer 33

Contextual variable that improves ability to recall information from memory

Question 34

Savings

Answer 34

The reduction in time needed to previously learned items

Question 35

Contextual dependance

Answer 35

You recall information better if your state of physical environment at the time of recall matches as closely as possible your state at the time of encoding

Question 36

Transcience

Answer 36

Loss of information from memory with passage of time

Question 37

Forgetting curve

Answer 37

Relates the amount of information recalled to the time that has elapsed since the study

Question 38

Memory misattribution

Answer 38

When a memory is assigned to the wrong source

Question 39

Destination memory

Answer 39

Recalling to whom you have given information

Question 40

Flashbulb memory

Answer 40

A memory established by events that are highly emotional and personally of consequence