Memory

Question 1

Retention of information or experience over time

Answer 1

Memory

Question 2

Three processes of memory

Answer 2

Encoding, Storage, Retrieval

Question 3

Modifies information so that it can be placed in memory

Answer 3

Encode

Question 4

The maintenance of information over time

Answer 4

Storage

Question 5

The location of stored information and its return to consciousness

Answer 5

Retrieval

Question 6

The kind of coding in which new information is related to information that is already known; self reference

Answer 6

Elaborative rehearsal / elaboration

Question 7

Type of memory, large capacity, 3 seconds or less, very rich and detailed but fleeting like a snapshot

Answer 7

Sensory Memory

Question 8

Type of memory, holds information for 30 seconds or less, provides temporary storage, short duration, limited capacity

Answer 8

Short-term Memory

Question 9

Type of memory that can last a lifetime

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Long-term Memory

Question 10

Type of Long-term memory outside of awareness, or with awareness, non declarative, procedural

Answer 10

Implicit Memory

Question 11

Type of long term memory with awareness, consciously recollected, declarative

Answer 11

Explicit Memory

Question 12

General knowledge; language, facts from formal education

Answer 12

Semantic Memory

Question 13

Knowledge about experiences; autobiographical memory-memories about your life

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Episodic Memory

Question 14

Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) - theory that memory is stored throughout brain in connections among neurons. Any single piece of knowledge is embedded in the strength of hundreds or thousands of connections among neurons and is not limited to a single location.

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Connectionism

Question 15

If two neurons activate simultaneously, the connection is strengthened

Answer 15

Long Term Potentiation - LTP

Question 16

Lose of memory, especially for episodic information; inability to remember things of the past

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Retrograde Amnesia

Question 17

Loss of memory caused by the inability to store new memories

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Anterograde amnesia

Question 18

Memory of emotionally significant events that people often recall with more accuracy and vivid imagery than everyday events

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Flashbulb Memory

Question 19

Information learned earlier disrupts recall of information learned later

Answer 19

Proactive Interference

Question 20

Information learned later disrupts retrieval of information learned earlier

Answer 20

Retroactive Interference