Memory

Question 1

Encoding

Answer 1

getting info into our brain

Question 2

storage

Answer 2

retaining encoded information

Question 3

retreival

Answer 3

getting stored info back out

Question 4

sensory memory

Answer 4

memory of the 5 external senses .5-4 seconds

Question 5

short term memory

Answer 5

current, conscious awareness 10-30 seconds

Question 6

working memory

Answer 6

all of the components in visual working simultaneously

Question 7

long term memory

Answer 7

relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of memory

Question 8

selective attention

Answer 8

giving full attention to a stimulus

Question 9

divided attention

Answer 9

splitting attention between 2 or more stimuli

Question 10

automatic processing

Answer 10

unconscious encoding of info

Question 11

effortful processing

Answer 11

encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

Question 12

maintenance rehearsal

Answer 12

repeating an item to maintain in STM and subsequently forget

Question 13

elaborative rehearsal

Answer 13

relating items to memories already in LTM

Question 14

massed practice

Answer 14

cramming

Question 15

distributed practice

Answer 15

learning where practice is broken up into short sessions over a longer period of time

Question 16

primacy effect

Answer 16

remembering what came first

Question 17

serial position effect

Answer 17

our tendency to recall the first and last items in a list but not the middle

Question 18

recency effect

Answer 18

remembering what came last

Question 19

structural/visual

Answer 19

encoding only the physical qualities of something

Question 20

phenomic/acoustic

Answer 20

encoding what the word sounds like

Question 21

semantic encoding

Answer 21

apply meaning to a new word

Question 22

self reference

Answer 22

relating new info to ourselves or our own expreiences

Question 23

shallow processing

Answer 23

structual/ visual
phenomic/acoustic

Question 24

deep processing

Answer 24

semantic
self reference

Question 25

interleaving

Answer 25

mixing different topics or forms of practice in order to facilitate learning

Question 26

imagery

Answer 26

mental pictures

Question 27

chunking

Answer 27

distributed practice

Question 28

rhyming

Answer 28

using rhyming to remember

Question 29

method of loci

Answer 29

uses visualizations with spatial memory, familiar to info about one's environment to quickly recall info

Question 30

iconic memory

Answer 30

visual fraction of a second

Question 31

haptic memory

Answer 31

tactile 2 secs

Question 32

echoic memory

Answer 32

sound 2-4 secs

Question 33

flashbulb memories

Answer 33

vivid memories emotional

Question 34

long term potentiation

Answer 34

every time a memory is consolidated

Question 35

LTM in

Answer 35

hippocampus

Question 36

LTM stored in

Answer 36

temporal lobe

Question 37

epsiodic

Answer 37

recall of personal experiences or events in one's life

Question 38

sematic

Answer 38

factual recollection

Question 39

procedural memories

Answer 39

how-to memories

Question 40

prospective memory

Answer 40

remembering to do something later

Question 41

retrospective memory

Answer 41

memories of past events

Question 42

recall

Answer 42

mental process of retreival of info from the past

Question 43

recognition

Answer 43

ability to recognize previously encountered events objects or people

Question 44

conetxt dependent memory

Answer 44

best remember things in same time/place you learned them

Question 45

state dependent memory

Answer 45

best remember if you're in the same level of consciousness

Question 46

mood congruent memory

Answer 46

best remember if in the same mood

Question 47

encoding failure

Answer 47

dont remember what you dont pay attention to

Question 48

storage decay

Answer 48

theory that LTM fade away after time

Question 49

tip of the tongue phenomenon

Answer 49

when you are about to retrieve something but it is not fully retreived

Question 50

proactive interference

Answer 50

old info blocks recall of new, similar info

Question 51

retroactive interference

Answer 51

new info blocks recall of old info

Question 52

elizabeth loftus

Answer 52

misinformation effect

Question 53

misinformation effect

Answer 53

she changed the wording of the question to change their memory of the event

Question 54

constructive memory

Answer 54

notion that we use a variety of info to fill in missing gaps of episodic memories and accuracy of episodic memories and accuracy of episodic may be affected

Question 55

source misattribution

Answer 55

cant remember where you learned something

Question 56

source/reality monitoring

Answer 56

mental test to determine if a memory is real

Question 57

infantile amnesia

Answer 57

inability of adults to retrieve episodic memory before 5/kindergarten

Question 58

retrograde amnesia

Answer 58

loss of memories of events that occurred before the onset of amnesia