Exam 2- memory

Question 1

Synesthesia

Answer 1

someone who experiences sensations in one sense when a different sense is stimulated

Question 2

Memory

Answer 2

Ability to store and use information
Also the store of what has been learned and remembered
Not necessarily conscious, as much of what we remember cannot intentionally be brought into awareness

Question 3

Sensory Memory

Answer 3

Holds information in its original sensory form for a very brief period of time, usually about a half a second or less
Lasts for between less than ½ of a second to 2 or 3 seconds

Question 4

Iconic memory

part of sensory memory

Answer 4

Brief visual record left on the retina of the eye

4th of July Sparklers-Drawing your name

Question 5

Echoic memory

part of sensory memory

Answer 5

Short-term retention of sounds

Fire alarm turns off but still hear the sound

Question 6

Short-Term or Working Memory

Answer 6

Working memory is required to attend to and solve a problem at hand; often used interchangeably with short-term memory

Question 7

Short-term memory capacity

Answer 7

7 items on average, with a range of 5 to 9 units

Local phone numbers

Question 8

Chunking

Answer 8

Breaking down a list of items into a smaller set of meaningful units

Question 9

How short-term memory works

Answer 9

Attending
Storing
Rehearsing

Question 10

Serial position effect

Answer 10

Primacy effect

Recency effect

Question 11

Types of Long Term Memory

Answer 11

Implicit memory

Explicit memory

Question 12

Implicit memory

Answer 12

Procedural memory

Priming

Question 13

Explicit memory

Answer 13

Semantic

Episodic

Question 14

Semantic

Episodic

Answer 14

Effortful and automatic processing
3 Levels of processing
Mnemonic devices

Question 15

Consolidation

Answer 15

Stabilizing or solidifying a memory

Question 16

Storage

Answer 16

Hierarchies
Schemas
Associative networks

Question 17

Retrieval

Answer 17

Recovery of stored information

Question 18

Levels of Processing (from shallow to Low)

Answer 18

Structural, Phonemic, Sematic

Question 19

The Sensory Cortexes

Answer 19

Vision → Occipital lobes
Hearing → Temporal lobes
Touch → Parietal lobes

Question 20

Prefrontal cortex

Answer 20

helps filter important from unimportant information

Question 21

Hippocampus

Answer 21

Sensory information then goes to the hippocampus, where consolidation can take hours or weeks

Question 22

Which memories are easier to recall? (factual or emotional)

Answer 22

emotional

Question 23

Flashbulb Memories

Answer 23

detailed, vivid, very specific memories of highly charged events

Question 24

Hebb’s law is about

Answer 24

LTP (long term potention)=Strengthening of a synaptic connection that results when the synapse of one neuron repeatedly fires and excites another neuron

Question 25

Eric Kandel

Answer 25

Eric Kandel | CREB

Question 26

Interference

Answer 26

Disruption of memory due to the presence of competing information Retroactive interference Proactive interference

Question 27

Absent-mindedness

Answer 27

Inattention to a stimulus impairs one’s ability to encode, store, and later retrieve information Do you study in front of the television?

Question 28

Blocking

Answer 28

An inability to retrieve stored information | Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

Question 29

Repression

Answer 29

An unconscious form of forgetting that keeps threatening thoughts, feelings, or impulses out of consciousness "traumatic events"

Question 30

Suggestibility

Answer 30

When memories are altered based on leading questions, comments, or statements from some other source False and/or recovered memories

Question 31

What are the two different types of Amnesia?

Answer 31

Anterograde and retrograde

Question 32

Anterograde

Answer 32

Inability to remember events and experiences that occur after an injury or the onset of disease

Question 33

Retrograde

Answer 33

Inability to recall events or experiences that happened before the onset of disease or injury