Chap 6

Question 1

What is memory

Answer 1

A group of related processes that are involved in acquiring, storing and retrieving info

Question 2

What are the three processes of memory

Answer 2

Encoding, storage, and retieval

Question 3

What is encoding

Answer 3

Transforming information into a form that can be retained by the memory system

Question 4

What are the 3 distinct stages of memory

Answer 4

Sensory memory, short term memory and long term memory

Question 5

Keeping something in your short term memory longer by rehearsing it

Answer 5

Maintenance Rehearsal

Question 6

Actively processing info in the short term memory

Answer 6

Working memory

Question 7

What are the tthree components of the working memory

Answer 7

Phonological loop, visuospatial sketch pad, central executive

Question 8

Encoding strategy that involves focusing on the meaning to transfer short term memory into long term memory

Answer 8

Elaborate rehearsal

Question 9

Long term memory that includes different skills operations and actions

Answer 9

Procedural memory

Question 10

Long term memory that focuses on events

Answer 10

Episodic memory

Question 11

Long term memory that refers to facts names definitions, concepts and ideas

Answer 11

Semantic memory

Question 12

Long term memory that relates to Episodic events in your life but also includes semantic details

Answer 12

Autobiographical memory

Question 13

Memory that effects your behavior that you can consciously recall using episodic and semantic memory

Answer 13

Explicit memory

Question 14

Memory that effects your behavior that you cannot recall. Has to do with procedural memory. Ex. Motor skills

Answer 14

Implicit memory

Question 15

Organising items into groups

Answer 15

Clustering

Question 16

A model that units of info in long term memory being organized in a complex network of associations

Answer 16

Semantic network model

Question 17

Hint prompt or clue that can trigger memory retrieval

Answer 17

Retrieval cue

Question 18

Retrieval of info with no retrieval cues

Answer 18

Recall or free recall

Question 19

Retrieval of info with a cue

Answer 19

Retrieval cue

Question 20

Remembering info from multiple choices

Answer 20

Recognition

Question 21

Tendency to remember items from the beginning or end of somethimg

Answer 21

Serial position effect

Question 22

Principe when conditions of info retrieval are similar to conditions of encoding the info

Answer 22

Encoding specificity principle

Question 23

Tendency to remember things better when in the same environment

Answer 23

Context effect

Question 24

When the way you remember something is effected by your mood when you experienced it

Answer 24

Mood congruence

Question 25

When you remember something because it was bizarre rare or unusual

Answer 25

Flashbulb memory

Question 26

Reasons we forget

Answer 26

Encoding failure, decay, interference and motivated forgetting

Question 27

Remembering to do something in the future

Answer 27

Prospective memory

Question 28

When you dont remember something because it was never encoded into your long term memory

Answer 28

Encoding failure

Question 29

When you used to have something in your long term memory but you didnt use it enough so I lost it

Answer 29

Decay theory

Question 30

An illusion of a memory because of the familiarity of a situation

Answer 30

Deja vu

Question 31

Memory for when where aand how a memory was stored

Answer 31

Source memory or source monitoring

Question 32

Forgetting because of another memory competing or because you got distracted

Answer 32

Interference theory

Question 33

When remembering a new memory interferes with an old one

Answer 33

Retroactive interference

Question 34

When an old memory effects remembering a new one.

Answer 34

Proactive interference

Question 35

Forgetting unpleasant memories

Answer 35

Motivated forgetting

Question 36

Consiously trying not to remember something

Answer 36

Suppression

Question 37

Unconsiously forgetting something

Answer 37

Repression

Question 38

Happens when the source of memory is forgotten or received from the wrong source

Answer 38

Source confusion

Question 39

When false details provide themselves after an event become confused with the details of the original memory

Answer 39

Misinformation effect

Question 40

A distorted or fabricated recollection of something that didn't happen

Answer 40

False memory

Question 41

Organised clusters of knowledge about a topic

Answer 41

Schema

Question 42

Typical sequence of actions at a ccommon event

Answer 42

Script

Question 43

Imagining an event markedly iincreases the confidence that the event actually occured

Answer 43

Imagination inflation

Question 44

Factors in creating a false memory

Answer 44

Misinformation effect, source, schema distortion, imagination inflation, false familiarity, blending fact and fiction, and suggestion

Question 45

Long lasting increase in synaptic strength between neurons

Answer 45

Long_term potential

Question 46

The hypothetical brain changes associated with a particular stored memory

Answer 46

Memory trace or engram

Question 47

Theorized that memory was localized

Answer 47

Karl lashley

Question 48

Blew air into rabbits eyes while he played a noise so they would learn to blink

Answer 48

Richard f. Thompson

Question 49

When you are unable to remember some or all of your past.

Answer 49

Retrograde amnesia

Question 50

When you are unable to form new memories

Answer 50

Aterograde amnesia

Question 51

Part of the brain that uses memory involving the sequence of events, but not the events themselves. Involved in the working memory.

Answer 51

Prefrontal cortex

Question 52

Part of the brain that encodes emotional aspects of memories

Answer 52

Amygdala

Question 53

Two parts of the brain that encodes new memory to Long term memory

Answer 53

Medial temporal lobe, hippocampus

Question 54

Part of the brain that contains memories involving movement

Answer 54

Cerrebellum

Question 55

Part of the brain that retrieves and organizes info that is associated with autobiographical and episodic memories

Answer 55

Frontal lobe

Question 56

Involved in encoding complex memories

Answer 56

Medial temporal lobes

Question 57

Disorder that refers to the decline and impairment of memory, reasoning, language, and other cognitive function

Answer 57

Dementia