Memory Part 2

Question 1

Unconscious encoding of incidental information such as space, time, and frequency of well-learned information

Answer 1

Automatic Processing

Question 2

Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

Answer 2

Effortful Processing

Question 3

Conscious and effortful repetition of information that you are trying to either maintain in consciousness or to encode for storage

Answer 3

Rehearsal

Question 4

Manipulation of information so that it can be stored

Answer 4

Rehearsal

Question 5

Repeating information to prolong its presence in STM

Answer 5

Maintenance Rehearsal

Question 6

Linking new information with existing memories and knowledge in LTM to help transfer

Answer 6

Elaboraborative Rehearsal

Question 7

Tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better LT retention that mass studied or practices

Answer 7

Spacing Effect

Question 8

Enhanced memory after retrieving rather than rereading information

Answer 8

Testing Effect

Question 9

Items at the beginning and end of the list are to be more easily retained than those in the middle

Answer 9

Serial Position Effect

Question 10

Remembering the first item the best

Answer 10

Primacy Effect

Question 11

Remembering the last item the best

Answer 11

Recency Effect

Question 12

Clear visual images like a photographic memory

Answer 12

Eidetic Memory

Question 13

Don’t remember information presented because one was focuses on own performance

Answer 13

Next-in-Line Effect

Question 14

More likely to remember different/ odd information

Answer 14

Von Restorff Effect

Question 15

Use of imagery to process information into memory

Answer 15

Visual Encoding

Question 16

Processing of information into memory per its sound

Answer 16

Acoustic Encoding

Question 17

Processing of information into memory per its meaning

Answer 17

Semantic Encoding

Question 18

Mental pictures and can be an important aid to effortful processing

Answer 18

Imagery

Question 19

Memory Aids often use visual imagery (method of loci, acronyms)

Answer 19

Mnemonics

Question 20

Memory technique of organizing material into familiar meaningful units

Answer 20

Chunking

Question 21

An increast in a synapse’s firing potential following brief rapid stimulaiton

Answer 21

Long Term Potentiation

Question 22

Believed to be the neural basis for learning and memory

Answer 22

Long Term Potentiation

Question 23

Recall of skills, preferences, and dispositions

Answer 23

Implicit Memory (Procedural/Nondeclarative Memory)

Question 24

Are processed by the cerebellum

Answer 24

Implicit Memory (Procedural/Nondeclarative Memory)

Question 25

Memories of how to do something such as riding bike or tying your shoes

Answer 25

Procedural Memory

Question 26

Houses procedural Memory

Answer 26

Cerebellum

Question 27

Memories of facing including names, images, and events stored in the hippocampus

Answer 27

Explicit Memory (Declarative Memory)

Question 28

The storied of our lives and experience that we can recall and tell someone

Answer 28

Episodic Memory

Question 29

Impersonal memories that are not drawn from experience but from common knowledge: facts we learn over life

Answer 29

Semantic Memory