psychology quiz 16

Question 0

3 parts of the brain involved in memory:

Answer 0

Hippocampus -
Amygdala -
Association areas -

Question 1

What are the three elements of memory?

Answer 1

Storage, Encoding, and Retrieval

Question 2

processes new memories

Answer 2

Hippocampus

Question 3

• processes emotional memories

Answer 3

Amygdala -

Question 4

• storage areas for memories

Answer 4

Association areas

Question 5

when information just flows into your brain

Answer 5

Automatic processing (lower tract) -

Question 6

when you consciously stuff information into your brain

Answer 6

Effortful processing (upper tract) -

Question 7

the more you space your efforts to remember, the better you a re to remember

Answer 7

Spacing effect

Question 8

when you take a test, it helps you remember what you are being tested over (teaching advise)

• Why? Because you have to pull the information out of your brain
• Why exams exist

Answer 8

Testing effect -

Question 9

• when you remember the first items in a serious

Answer 9

Primary effect -

Question 10

• when you remember the last items in a serious

Answer 10

Regency effect -

Question 11

• example: when using PIE, you break it down into a sections –> 513-880-9989 <– breaking down into parts

Answer 11

Chunking -

Question 12

How are memories stored?

Answer 12

Stored as chemical connections
-Example: neurons
Knowing something right of is strong
Not knowing something is less strong
And no idea is static

Question 13

How does information get into the LTM?(LONG TERM MEMORY)

Answer 13

• Whenever you answer a question it comes from your long term memory
• Can pull and put in information from our long gem memory
• WM= working memory
• Short term memory holds about a phone number
• -INFO –> stm - wm - ltm
• Short term memory has 2 ways of working
• Working memory is where you think about stuff

Question 14

What is amnesia?

Answer 14

-Lost of memory

Question 15

Main psychologist?

Answer 15

H.M.

Question 16

a memory that we activity recall
Example: who is the first President of the United States?
George Washington

Answer 16

Implicit memory –

Question 17

memory we have but don’t know we have

Example: walk from room 010 to the office

Answer 17

Explicit memory

Question 18

Why do concussions produce memory problems?

Answer 18

Because the short term memory doesn’t have a chance to pass information to the working memory

Question 19

What is a flashbulb memory?

Answer 19

Is a memory so emotionally intense that it goes straight to your long term memory
---Could be positive or negative
---People who suffer from PRSD
---Wedding Day