Chapter 7 Stages of Memory- 3/26/18

Question 1

What are the three stages of memory?

Answer 1

1. Sensory Memory
2. Short-term Memory
3. Long-term Memory

Question 2

What’s the 1st of memory?

Answer 2

Sensory memory

Question 3

Sensory consists of the ______, initial recording of information.

Answer 3

Immediate

Question 4

What is memory trace?

Answer 4

Our impression made on our senses by the image

Question 5

How long do memory traces last?

Answer 5

Fraction of a second

Question 6

Where are icons held?

Answer 6

Sensory register- iconic memory

Question 7

What are icons?

Answer 7

The mental pictures we form of visual stimuli

Question 8

Eidetic Imagery

Answer 8

The ability to remember photographic memory

Question 9

____% of children have eidetic imagery.

Answer 9

5

Question 10

Sensory register that holds mental traces of sound, called echoes

Answer 10

Echoic memory

Question 11

Which are easier to remember- acoustic codes or visual codes?

Answer 11

Acoustic codes

- echoes last several seconds longer than icons

Question 12

What stage of memory is called working memory?

Answer 12

Short-term memory

Question 13

Tendency to recall the initial item in a series of items

Answer 13

Primary effect

Question 14

Organization of items into familiar or manageable units

Answer 14

Chunking

Question 15

Tendency to recall the last items in a series

Answer 15

Recency Effect

Question 16

Occurs when new information appears in short-term memory and takes the place of what’s already there

Answer 16

Interference

Question 17

Short-term memory is the _____ between _____ memory and ______ memory.

Answer 17

1. Bridge
2. Sensory
3. Long-term

Question 18

What is the 3rd stage of memory?

Answer 18

Long-term memory

Question 19

One way of transferring information from short-term memory to long-term by using repetition

Answer 19

Mechanical repetition (maintenance rehearsal)

Question 20

Relating new information to information that you already know

Answer 20

Elaborative rehearsal

Question 21

Capacity of Memory

Answer 21

Psychologists do not know how much can be stored in a person’s long-term memory

Question 22

Memories are reconstructed from the bite and pieces of our experiences: siblings remember same event differently

Answer 22

Memory as Reconstructive

Question 23

Mental representation that we form of the world by organizing bits of information into knowledge

Answer 23

Schemas