Chapter 6 (Memory Processes)

Question 1

focuses on the type of processing that we do in order to store and retrieve items from memory

Answer 1

levels of processing theory

Question 2

any learning that happened to occur inadvertently

Answer 2

incidental learning

Question 3

aids in the recall of information

Answer 3

elaboration

Question 4

memory largely uses world knowledge and schemata

Answer 4

Frederick Bartlett

Question 5

referring to events that occurred in our personal past

Answer 5

autobiographical memories

Question 6

memories that occur from intense emotional moments in our lives

Answer 6

flashbulb memories

Question 7

memory disorders

Answer 7

amnesia

Question 8

argued to affect long term memory not short term memory, cannot transfer from short term to long term

Answer 8

anterograde amnesia

Question 9

loss of past memories, does not affect social skills, language, or previously mastered skills

Answer 9

retrograde amnesia

Question 10

general collection of memory, believed to be stored in a hierarchy

Answer 10

semantic memory

Question 11

properties and facts are stored at the highest level possible

Answer 11

cognitive economy

Question 12

collection of nodes

Answer 12

semantic network

Question 13

idea that excitation spreads along a collection of nodes

Answer 13

spreading activation

Question 14

things that are consciously recollected

Answer 14

explicit memories

Question 15

memory that is not deliberate or conscious but shows evidence of prior learning and storage

Answer 15

implicit memory

Question 16

exposure to one word facilitates the recognition of a semantically related word

Answer 16

semantic priming

Question 17

facilitation of the cognitive processing of information after a recent exposure to that same information

Answer 17

repetition priming

Question 18

argued that implicit and explicit memory were not two distinct processes

Answer 18

process dissociation framework