chapter 6 Flashcards
_______ is the retention of memory for some period of time.
storage
Repeating items over and over in order to aid memory is known as ________ rehearsal.
maintenance
The Internet, with its series of links from one site to many others, is a good analogy for the organization of ________ memory.
episodic
For which famous memory researcher is memory a problem-solving activity in which the problem is to give a coherent account of some past event, and the memory is the solution to that problem?
Barlett
A. R. Luria studied a mnemonist with phenomenal memory. This person had several problems associated with the ability. Which was one was reported in your textbook?
separating trivial from important memories
what lobes are associated with short term memory (two)
prefrontal cortex and temporal lobes
People with Alzheimer’s disease typically have a memory problem known as ________.
anterograde amnesia - inability for form new memories
Declarative memories are to ________ memories as nondeclarative memories are to ________ memories.
explicit; implicit
what memory is constantly updated?
episodic (think episodes)
The fact that it is easier to recall items at the beginning and end of a list of unrelated items is known as the ________
serial position effect
Memories that concern events that are highly significant and are vividly remembered are called ________.
flashbulb memories
It’s Thanksgiving and the whole family has gotten together. You start to reminisce about your childhood and get into an argument with your brother. Both of you claim that you were the innocent victim of the other. This is an example of ________.
constructive processing (think about Legos or building blocks and how sometimes you can’t remember how exactly you built something)
decay theory works well to explain forgetting in _________
sensory memory and short term memory
In the curve of forgetting developed by Ebbinghaus, the greatest amount of forgetting occurs ________.
within the first HOUR after learning new material
