Unit 7 Flashcards Memory

Question 1

Memory def

Answer 1

Process of storing and remembering info and using it for future use

Question 2

3 Steps for memory

Answer 2

1) encoding
2) storage
3) retrival

Question 3

Encoding def

Answer 3

Info entering the memory system

Question 4

Storage def

Answer 4

Record of info being created

Question 5

Retrival def

Answer 5

Recovering info for usage

Question 6

Storage decay def

Answer 6

Occurs when you stop usijg the info learned / gray memories

Question 7

Parallel processing

Answer 7

Ability to deal w multiple stimuli simultaneously/ to encode lots of info

Question 8

Sensory memory def

Answer 8

Short term (second) processed by the sensory organs

Question 9

Two types of sensory memory and defs

Answer 9

1) iconic
Visual stimuli

2) echoic
Sound/auditory stimuli

Question 10

Working term/ short term memory

Answer 10

Holding of mems when they do not enter storage

Question 11

Long term memory

Answer 11

Easily used/ manipulated for own use

Question 12

Explicit / declaritve

Answer 12

Use of effortful processing / conscious recollection of info does not not happen automatically

Question 13

Two types of explicit

Answer 13

1) Eposodic
Conscious recollection of life experience

2) semantic
Declaritive facts / trivia fact

Question 14

Implicit memory

Answer 14

Riding a bike and swimming / automatic (non declaritive memory)

Question 15

measures of retrival

Answer 15

1) recall
No aid in memory

2) recogniton
Multi choice

Question 16

Chunking

Answer 16

Dividing large info into smaller units

Phone number

Question 17

Nmonics

Answer 17

Techniques to assist w memory

Ex: rhyming, acronyms

Question 18

Hierarchies

Answer 18

Placing order/ ordering

Question 19

Spacing effect

Answer 19

Memorizing through small reps over long non repeated sessions is more effective

Question 20

Testing effect

Answer 20

Creation of self testing / self guiding

Question 21

Priming

Answer 21

Used by people (especially teachers) to expose to stimulus to influence/ modify a response

Question 22

State dependent memory def amd ex

Answer 22

Mem of past events improved when a person is in the same state when mem was formed
Ex: when crying think of sadder events which makes it worse

Question 23

Mood congruent memory

Answer 23

Correlation between mood state and our emotional context of a memory

Question 24

Serial position effect

Answer 24

Remember the beginning and end better

Question 25

Ebbinghaus forgetting curve

Answer 25

100% retention at first and over time you loose the memory

Question 26

Elizabeth loftue misinfo effect def and ex

Answer 26

Memories can be manipulated and misled based on the time and others
Ex: brain games and the 2 cars episode

Question 27

Deja vu

Answer 27

Sensation you have experienced an event before

Question 28

Amnesia def

Answer 28

Loss of a memory

Question 29

4 types of amnesia

Answer 29

1) anterograde amnesia
After traumatic event

2) retrograde amnesia
Lose memories before

3) proactive interference
Old info blocks you from learning new info

4) retractive interference
New info interfere w prev learned info

Question 30

PORN meaning

Answer 30

Proactive old info

Retrograde new