Forgetting And Memory Improvement

Question 1

_____ - involves identifying events that have been encountered before (easiest memory task, as seeing something will trigger your memory like multiple choice questions)

Answer 1

Recognition

Question 2

_____ - involves bringing something back to the mind, and reconstructing it in your mind (unprompted)

Answer 2

Recall

Question 3

_____ - Involves learning a fact we have learned before, but have forgotten

Answer 3

Relearning

Question 4

____ - the loss of long term memory as a result of injury or Justice

Answer 4

Amnesia

Question 5

_____ amnesia - Loss of info after an injury (can remember things before the injury, hippocampus is usually injured and can’t transfer short term to long term)

Answer 5

Anterograde amnesia

Question 6

_____ amnesia - Unable to remember things before the injury

Answer 6

Retrograde amnesia

Question 7

______ - The process of bringing up old memories (can change how we remember or what we remember about past events, leads to getting things wrong)

Answer 7

Reconstruction

Question 8

_____ - Phenomenon of someone changing how they remember an event based on something someone else said (can cause misidentification in crime)

Answer 8

Suggestibility

Question 9

_____ - people may reconstruct memories falsely after exposure to misinformation (By Loftus and Palmer, conducted the car crash study w/ 45 college students and changed words like “crash” to “contacted”)

Answer 9

Misinformation effect

Question 10

_____ - tool that can be used to help you remember new info (PEMDAS, can be in the form of an acronym/phrase/jingle)

Answer 10

Mnemonic device