Memory

Question 1

Processing info in memory

Answer 1

Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Reconsolidation

Question 2

Multiscore Model of memory

Answer 2

A model proposing that info from our senses levels in memory:
Sensory, short term, and long term

Question 3

Sensory Memory

Answer 3

Holds the sensory info on the order of milliseconds to seconds
-Substantial storage capacity but very limited duration
—-eye (iconic)
—-ear (echoic)
—-touch (hepatic)
-Neural persistence

Question 4

Short Term Recovery

Answer 4

Storage level of memory where info can be held briefly
–Info from all senses can be held for a minute
–Can be forgotten or transferred into long term memory

Question 5

Working memory

Answer 5

Limited storage
–lasts 20-30 seconds unless rehearsed
–7 items -/+ 2 items
Chunking: A meaningful unit of info

Question 6

Central executive function

Answer 6

Allows for the manipulation of info in short term

Question 7

Phonological loop

Answer 7

Repeating info to keep in short term memory
—Sound storage
—Articulatory processor

Question 8

Visual spatial sketchpad

Answer 8

Seeing mental images

Question 9

Primary effect

Answer 9

initial items are stored in long-term memory more efficiently

Question 10

Recency effect

Answer 10

last few items are still in working memory and are readily available

Question 11

Maintence rehearsal

Answer 11

Repetition of material

Question 12

Elaburative rehearsal

Answer 12

Association of new info with already stored knowledge

Question 13

Self reference

Answer 13

Encoding info in relation to the self

Question 14

Semantic

Answer 14

Encoding meaning

Question 15

Acoustic

Answer 15

Ending sound

Question 16

Visual

Answer 16

Encoding images

Question 17

Misinfo effect

Answer 17

When a person mistakenly recalls misleading info

Question 18

Weapon focus effect

Answer 18

Focused on the weapon and not the appearance of criminal

Question 19

Other race effect

Answer 19

We recognize our own race better than other races

Question 20

Source and reality monitoring steps

Answer 20

Unconscious transference
police line ups suggestable questions

Question 21

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 21

Inability to remember anything post trauma

Question 22

Anterograde

Answer 22

Inability to form new memories

Question 23

Explicit memories

Answer 23

A form of memory that involves intentional and conscious remembering

Question 24

Declarative memory

Answer 24

Remember core memories

Question 25

Episodic memories

Answer 25

The recollection of personal experience that requires piecing together the elements of that time and place

Question 26

Semantic Memory

Answer 26

Supporting knowledge about the world, including concepts and facts

Question 27

Semantic dementia

Answer 27

disorder of semantic memory that causes patients to lose the ability to match words or images to their meanings.

Question 28

Semantic Satiation

Answer 28

Repeating words that soon don't sound like words

Question 29

Implicit memories

Answer 29

A form of memory that occurs without intentional recollection or awareness ---non declarative memory

Question 30

Emotional memories

Answer 30

Flashbulb memory A vivid memory for an emotionally significant event

Question 31

Free recall

Answer 31

Accessing info from memory without any cues to aid your retrival

Question 32

cued recall

Answer 32

A form of retrieval that's faciliated by providing related cues

Question 33

Recognition

Answer 33

a form of retrieval that relies on identifying previously seen or experienced info

Question 34

Encoding Specificity Principle

Answer 34

The idea that retrieval is best when the retrieval context

Question 35

Context dependent

Answer 35

improved recall when the context during encoding is the same as the context during retrieval.

Question 36

State dependent

Answer 36

a state that the retrieval of recently obtained information may be potential if the subject exists in a similar physiological situation as for the period of the encoding stage

Question 37

Mood dependent

Answer 37

current mood resembles their mood at the time of memory storage

Question 38

Forgetting curve

Answer 38

The rotation of info over various delay times

Question 39

Trace decay theory of forgetting

Answer 39

our memory will fade away with time if we don't access it regularly

Question 40

Interference theory of forgetting

Answer 40

the greater the similarity between two things, the more likely they are to interfere with the memory trace.