Memory FRQ

Question 1

Acoustic encoding

Answer 1

the process of encoding auditory input for storage and later retrieval
-sounds and words
-speaking lines out loud during practice, she is able to acoustically encode her lines and retrieve them during her performance

Question 2

Context-dependent memory

Answer 2

the ability to recall information more accurately when provided the same environment that it was learned
-Practicing the play with all the other actors, she is able to remember during the performance because she knows the order of events, lines, and dances

Question 3

Procedural memory

Answer 3

Stores information in long-term memory about how to perform certain processes
-Encoding dance routines and songs during practice, procedural memory allows her to sing and dance them without much effort because it becomes a motor skill

Question 4

Distributed practice

Answer 4

Primes your memory by the process of practicing a behavior repeatedly between acceptable periods of time
-Play practice for an hour and a half every day after school instead of eight hours once a week allows Liselle to learn more info and retain it for longer

Question 5

Proactive interference

Answer 5

New information makes the retrieval of older information more difficult
-Might not remember the first half of the play as clearly as she once did bc the cast had been working on learning the second half that week

Question 6

Transience

Answer 6

The decreasing ability to retrieve information
-No practice over school Feb break, when she gets back on Monday she doesn’t remember things as well because she didn’t practice over break

Question 7

Blocking

Answer 7

Not being able to remember certain things because another thought is getting in the way
-tip of the tongue phenomenon
-While practicing one of her songs, she starts thinking about a history quiz tomorrow and then couldn’t remember the words as well.