memory

Question 1

 Sensory memory

Answer 1

Remembering some thing briefly

ex. Asking a Student what you just said and they can give you an answer

Question 2

Self reference affect

Answer 2

remember things better when you relate it to yourself

Question 3

Spacing

Answer 3

studying a little group at a time

Question 4

deep processing

Answer 4

coming up with deeper meanings to remember things

Question 5

Mnemonics

Answer 5

Hooks people used to remember things

Question 6

Peg word

Answer 6

hang a memory on an image

Question 7

Chunking

Answer 7

Type of pneumonic

Chunking things together like a phone number

Question 8

Implicit memory

Answer 8

muscle memory

ex. Learning how to ride a bike

Question 9

Explicit memory

Answer 9

knowing stuff (knowledge)

Question 10

Automatic processing

Answer 10

Remembering some thing without trying to remember

Question 11

Effortful processing

Answer 11

trying to remember something

Question 12

Procedural memory

Answer 12

Routine/knowing things in steps

Question 13

encoding

Answer 13

getting things through each part of memory

Question 14

decay

Answer 14

Forgetting

Question 15

Priming

Answer 15

things that spur your memory

ex. music/smell

Question 16

Flashbulb memories

Answer 16

Highly emotional memories

Question 17

Interference

Answer 17

getting in the way of learning something accurately

Question 18

Proactive

Answer 18

—> Old messing up new

Question 19

Retroactive

Answer 19

<— New messing up old

ex. You’ve known German your whole life but you just learn French and when speaking German you add French words

Question 20

shallow processing

Answer 20

Kind of processing but not really

Question 21

Cerebellum

Answer 21

Helps with implicit memory

Question 22

Hippocampus

Answer 22

Takes memory from short-term to long-term

Question 23

Overlearning

Answer 23

Going over so much that you really know it

Question 24

anterograde amnesia

Answer 24

no new memories after accident

Question 25

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 25

Loss of all memories

Question 26

Short term stress’s affect on memory

Answer 26

Enhances memory

Question 27

Long-term stress’s affect on memory

Answer 27

Causes hippocampus to shrink

Question 28

Iconic memory

Answer 28

sensory memory with sight | ex. Hear or see is in there briefly

Question 29

Where are explicit memories and the brain?

Answer 29

Throughout cerebral arteries

Question 30

Amygdala

Answer 30

- Part of the brain that makes you feel strong emotion | - Next hippocampus so that’s why you associate emotions with memories

Question 31

Recognition

Answer 31

When you see something you recognize | ex. mult choice on test

Question 32

Recall

Answer 32

when you have to recall a memory you need to encode it better

Question 33

Source miss attribution/source amnesia

Answer 33

Forgetting where you learn some thing

Question 34

Tip of the tongue phenomenon

Answer 34

When somethings on the tip of your tongue – retrieval issue

Question 35

Next in line effect

Answer 35

Not listening to the person ahead of you because you know you’re next

Question 36

Serial position effect

Answer 36

learn the first and last parts of a sequence best | ex. activity in class

Question 37

Types of encoding

Answer 37

- Visual - Acoustic – sound - Semantic– Story behind it

Question 38

Herman Ebbinghaus

Answer 38

studied memory and how fast he forgot things

Question 39

long-term potentiation 

Answer 39

reacting to some thing because you associate that with something that causes a reaction ex. snail experiment 

Question 40

Cerebral cortex

Answer 40

Where memories are stored

Question 41

Rosie retrospection

Answer 41

Remembering good things better than bad

Question 42

Neurotransmitter

Answer 42

A messenger that transports info through the brain

Question 43

acetylcholine

Answer 43

The neurotransmitter associated with memories

Question 44

Mood congruency

Answer 44

Remembering happy things when you’re happy and sad things when you’re sad

Question 45

Place congruency

Answer 45

remembering things about a place when you are there 

Question 46

Freud

Answer 46

Came up with how people try to forget things (repression)

Question 47

repression

Answer 47

Motivated forgetting

Question 48

method of loci

Answer 48

putting things in a place | ex. Remembering talking about a topic when you are where you talked about that topic

Question 49

Episodic memory

Answer 49

remembering what you have done through the day

Question 50

Recency effect

Answer 50

Remembering things that happen recently | ex. And saying that the greatest football player of all time is someone you’ve seen play recently

Question 51

context dependent memory

Answer 51

remember things better in the context of where you learned it

Question 52

primacy

Answer 52

the first part of a sequence

Question 53

recency

Answer 53

the last part of a sequence