chapter 7 Flashcards
(10 cards)
A person who has experienced the loss of past memories may be experiencing
retrograde amnesia
If you study in the same room in which you take an exam, you will probably do better on the exam than if you had studied elsewhere. this outcome occurs because of
context-dependent
Jim and Phil are changing the oil in Jim’s car. Jim car. Jim is trying to remember all the actions involved in changing the oil. Phil is trying to remember the first time he ever changed the oil in his car. Jim is trying to recall a ___ memory and Phil is trying to recall a __
Procedural: episodic
George Miller discovered that short-term memory is limited to ____ plus or minus __items or chunks of information
procedural: episodic
Chris is looking for his friend in a crowd of people at a concert. As he scans the crowd, he often blinks but still retains a brief visual image of many of the faces in the crowd for a very brief time. Chris is able to maintain this visual information due to te function of his
sensory storage
A person who is unable to process memories with strong emational contentmay have poor functioning in the
amygdala
A person who is unable to process memories with strong emotional content may have poor functioning in the
amygdala
When you are reading your textbook , your brain changes the words you are reading into meaningful neural code that it can use. in memory, this process is called
encoding
A string of numbers is difficult to remember. if they are broken into four groups the numbers are easy to remember due to the
Chunking
Nora and Miles are studying for an exam. Nora makes flash cards to memorize new terms and repeatedly reads them to herself. Miles links new terms to the ones he already knows based on their meanings. Nora is using ____ and Miles is using ___ to learn terms
maintenance rehearsal: elaborative reheearsal
