Memory

Question 1

Kinds of memories

Answer 1

Explicit memories
Implicit Memories

Question 2

memory that clearly and distinctly expresses (explicates) specific information

Answer 2

explicit memory

Question 3

of events
that happen to a person or that take
place in the person’s presence

Answer 3

Episodic memory

Question 4

general
knowledge, as opposed to episodic
memory

Answer 4

Semantic memory

Question 5

-I know
-general knowledge

Answer 5

Semantic memory

Question 6

-that happen to take place
-i remember
-Have emotional attachment

Answer 6

Episodic Memory

Question 7

-memory that we have that we dont know
-muscle memory
-still memory
-proceedual install

Answer 7

Implicit memories

Question 8

memory
that is suggested (implied) but not
plainly expressed, as illustrated in
the things that people do but do not
state clearly

Answer 8

Implicit Memory

Question 9

the activation of specific
associations in memory, often as
a result of repetition and without
making a conscious effort to access
the memory

Answer 9

Priming

Question 10

memory for past events, activities,
and learning experiences, as shown
by explicit (episodic and semantic)
and implicit memories

Answer 10

Retrospective memory

Question 11

memory to perform an act in the
future, as at a certain time or when a
certain event occurs

Answer 11

Prospective memory

Question 12

processes of memory

Answer 12

-encode
-storage
-retrival

Question 13

modifies information so
that it can be placed in memory;
encoding is the first stage of
information processing

Answer 13

Encode

Question 14

the maintenance of
information over time; the second
stage of information processing

Answer 14

Storage

Question 15

stored information means locating it and returning it to
consciousness.

Answer 15

Retrival

Question 16

mental repetition of information to
keep it in memory

Answer 16

Maintenance rehearsal

Question 17

the kind of coding in which new
information is related to information
that is already known

Answer 17

Elaborative rehearsal

Question 18

the location of stored
information and its return to
consciousness; the third stage of
information processing

Answer 18

Retrival

Question 19

the processes by which
information is encoded, stored, and
retrieved

Answer 19

Memory

Question 20

the type or
stage of memory first encountered
by a stimulus; sensory memory
holds impressions briefly, but
long enough so that series of
perceptions are psychologically
continuous

Answer 20

Sensory memory

Question 21

an assumed
change in the nervous system that
reflects the impression made by a
stimulus

Answer 21

Memory trace

Question 22

A mental representation of a visual stimulus that is held briefly in sensory memory

Answer 22

Icon

Question 23

the sensory
register that briefly holds mental
representations of visual stimuli

Answer 23

Iconic memory

Question 24

the
maintenance of detailed visual
memories over several minutes

Answer 24

Eidetic Imagery

Question 25

a mental representation of an auditory stimulus (sound) that is held briefly in sensory memory

Answer 25

Echo

Question 26

the sensory register that briefly holds mental representations of auditory stimuli

Answer 26

Echoic memory

Question 27

the type or stage of memory that can hold information for up to a minute or so after the trace of the stimulus decays; also called working memory

Answer 27

short-term memory (STM)

Question 28

Another term for short term memory

Answer 28

Working memory

Question 29

the tendency to recall more accurately the first and last items in a series

Answer 29

Serial position effect

Question 30

a stimulus or group of stimuli that are perceived as a discrete piece of information

Answer 30

Chunk

Question 31

the type or stage of memory capable of relatively permanent storage

Answer 31

Long term memory

Question 32

in Freud’s psychodynamic theory, the ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from conscious awareness

Answer 32

Repression

Question 33

a way of mentally representing the world, such as a belief or an expectation, that can influence perception of persons, objects, and situations

Answer 33

Schemas

Question 34

Process of info

Answer 34

Computation

Question 35

3 ways to code memory

Answer 35

Visual Acoustic Semantic

Question 36

they represent memory codes differently

Answer 36

Synesthesia

Question 37

Senses memory

Answer 37

Sensory Memory

Question 38

Capture memory with 100% accuracy

Answer 38

Eidectic Memory

Question 39

Long term memory that forms in a brief moment

Answer 39

Photographic Memory

Question 40

Repress Acoustic with another memory

Answer 40

Articulatory Suppression

Question 41

Keep giving time intervals to adjust when adding info

Answer 41

Displace

Question 42

the feeling that information is stored in memory although it cannot be readily retrieved; also called the feeling-ofknowing experience

Answer 42

tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) phenomenon

Question 43

information that is better retrieved in the context in which it was encoded and stored, or learned

Answer 43

context-dependent memory

Question 44

information that is better retrieved in the physiological or emotional state in which it was encoded and stored, or learned

Answer 44

state-dependent memory

Question 45

meaningless sets of two consonants, with a vowel sandwiched in between, that are used to study memory

Answer 45

nonsense syllables

Question 46

Studying Memory

Answer 46

Recognition Recall

Question 47

One aspect of forgetting is failure to recognize something we have experienced.

Answer 47

Recognition

Question 48

another memory task, Ebbinghaus would read lists of nonsense syllables aloud to the beat of a metronome and then see how many he could produce from memory

Answer 48

Recall

Question 49

nonsense syllables presented in pairs in experiments that measure recall

Answer 49

Paired associates

Question 50

a measure of retention in which the difference between the number of repetitions originally required to learn a list and the number of repetitions required to re-learn the list after a certain amount of time has elapsed is calculated

Answer 50

Method of savings

Question 51

the difference between the number of repetitions originally required to learn a list and the number of repetitions required to relearn the list after a certain amount of time has elapsed

Answer 51

Savings

Question 52

the view that we may forget stored material because other learning interferes with it

Answer 52

interference theory

Question 53

the interference of new learning with the ability to retrieve material learned previously

Answer 53

Retroactive interference

Question 54

the interference by old learning with the ability to retrieve material learned recently

Answer 54

Proactive Interference

Question 55

loss of memory of personal information that is thought to stem from psychological conflict or trauma

Answer 55

Dissociative amnesia

Question 56

inability to recall events that occur prior to the age of three or so; also termed childhood amnesia

Answer 56

Infantile Amnesia

Question 57

a structure in the limbic system that plays an important role in the formation of new memories

Answer 57

Hippocampus

Question 58

failure to remember events that occurred after physical trauma because of the effects of the trauma

Answer 58

Anterograde Amnesia

Question 59

failure to remember events that occurred prior to physical trauma because of the effects of the trauma

Answer 59

Retrograde amnesia

Question 60

an assumed electrical circuit in the brain that corresponds to a memory trace

Answer 60

Engram

Question 61

enhanced efficiency in synaptic transmission that follows brief, rapid stimulation

Answer 61

Long-term potentiation (LTP)