Mini Chap 8

Question 1

Anterograde amnesia

Answer 1

Inability to encode new memories form our experiences

Question 2

Chunking

Answer 2

Organizing information into meaningful groupings allowing us to extend the span of short term memory

Question 3

Context dependant learning

Answer 3

Superior retrieval of memories when the external context of the original memories matches retrieval context

Question 4

Cryptomneisia

Answer 4

Failure to recognize that our ideas originated with someone else

Question 5

Decay

Answer 5

Fading of information form memory over tine

Question 6

Distributed versus massed practice

Answer 6

studying information in small increments over time (distributed) versus in large increments over a brief amount of time (massed)

Question 7

Echoic memory

Answer 7

Auditory sensory memory

Question 8

Elaborating rehearsal

Answer 8

Linking stimuli to each other in a meaningful way to improve retention of information in short term memory

Question 9

Encoding

Answer 9

Process of getting information into our memory banks

Question 10

Encoding specificity

Answer 10

Phenomenon of remembering something better when the conditions under which we retirive information are similar to the conditions under which we encoded it

Question 11

Episodic memory

Answer 11

Recollection of events in our lives

Question 12

Explicit memories

Answer 12

Memories we recall intentionally and of which we have conscious awareness

Question 13

Flashbulb memory

Answer 13

Emotional memory that is extraordinarily vivid and detailed

Question 14

Iconic memory

Answer 14

Visual sensory memory

Question 15

Imagination inflation

Answer 15

Imaging an event inflates confidence in the likelihood that it occurred

Question 16

Implicit memory

Answer 16

Memories we don’t deliberately remember or reflect on consciously

Question 17

Infantile amnesia

Answer 17

Inability of adults to remember personal experiences that took place before an early age

Question 18

Interference

Answer 18

Loss of information from memory because of competition from additional incoming information

Question 19

Levels of processing

Answer 19

Depth of transforming information which influences how easily we remember it

Question 20

long term memory

Answer 20

Relatively enduring retention of information stored regarding our facts, experiences and skills

Question 21

Long term potential ion

Answer 21

Gradual strengthening of the connecting among neurons from repetitive stimulation

Question 22

Magic number

Answer 22

The span of short term memory according to George miller—> seven plus or minus two pieces of information

Question 23

Maintenance rehearsal

Answer 23

Repeating stimuli in their original form to retain them in short term memory

Question 24

Memory illusion

Answer 24

False bu subjectively compelling memory

Question 25

Meta memory

Answer 25

Knowledge about our own memory abilities and limitations

Question 26

Misinformation effect

Answer 26

Creation of fictitious memories by proving misleading information about an event after it takes place

Question 27

Nummonic

Answer 27

Learning aid strategy or device that enhances reveal

Question 28

Per a store

Answer 28

Type of long lasting memory that appears to be permanent

Question 29

Primacy effect

Answer 29

Tendency to remember words at the beginning of a list especially well

Question 30

Priming

Answer 30

Our ability to identify a stimulus more easily or quickly after we’ve encountered similar stimuli

Question 31

Proactive interference

Answer 31

Interference with acquisition of new information due to previous learning of information

Question 32

Procedural memory

Answer 32

Memory for how to do things, including motor skills and habits

Question 33

Recall

Answer 33

Generating previously remembered information

Question 34

Recency effect

Answer 34

Tendency to remember words at the end of a list especially well

Question 35

recognition

Answer 35

Selecting previously remember3ed information form an array of option

Question 36

Rehearsal

Answer 36

Repeating information to extend the duration of retention in short term memory

Question 37

Relearning

Answer 37

Reacquaint knowledge that we’d previously learned but largely forgotten over time

Question 38

retrival

Answer 38

Deactivation or reconstruction of experiences from our memory stores

Question 39

Retrival cue

Answer 39

Hint that makes it easier for us to recall information

Question 40

Retroactive interferences

Answer 40

Interferences with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information

Question 41

Retrograde amnesia

Answer 41

Loss of memories from our past

Question 42

Schema

Answer 42

Organized knowledge structure or mental model that we’ve stored in memory

Question 43

Semantic memory

Answer 43

Our knowledge or facts about the world

Question 44

Sensory memory

Answer 44

Brief storage roof perceptual information before it is passed to short term memory

Question 45

Serial position curve

Answer 45

Graph depicting both primacy and recency effects on peoples ability to recall items on a list

Question 46

Short term memory

Answer 46

Memory systems that retains information for limited durations

Question 47

Source monitoring confusing

Answer 47

Lack of clarity about the origin of a memory

Question 48

State depending learning

Answer 48

Superior retrival of memories when the organism is in the Sam physiological or psychological state as it was during encoding

Question 49

Storage

Answer 49

Process of keeping information in memroy

Question 50

Suggestive memory technique

Answer 50

Procedure that encourages patients to recall memories that may or may not have taken place

Question 51

Tip of tongue phenomenon

Answer 51

Experience of knowing that we know something but being unable to access it