Week 3 Memory

Question 1

What is encoding

Answer 1

info turned into a memory

Question 2

What are the 3 kinds of memory storage

Answer 2

episodic, procedural and semantic

Question 3

What is retrieval

Answer 3

from memory to awareness again

Question 4

Auditory memory is based on

Answer 4

sounds

Question 5

Visual memory is based on

Answer 5

images

Question 6

Semantic memory is based on

Answer 6

the ‘meaning’ of an experience

Question 7

Episodic memory is based on

Answer 7

memory of a specific event

Question 8

Procedural memory is based on

Answer 8

steps on how to do something

Question 9

Explicit memory is

Answer 9

Intentional recall

Question 10

Implicit memory is

Answer 10

unintentional recall

Question 11

Identify 2 approaches to research on memory

Answer 11

1- PET scans (Neurological)

2- Observation

Question 12

What is the Levels of Processing model

Answer 12

how well something is remembered depends on the degree to which incoming info is mentally processed.

Question 13

What is Maintenance rehearsal

Answer 13

repeating info to memorise (short term memory)

Question 14

What is Elaborative Rehearsal

Answer 14

thinking about how new info relates to info already stored in long term memory. Works better long term than maintenance rehearsal. Supports levels of processing theory.

Question 15

What is the Transfer appropriate model

Answer 15

how well the retrieval process matches the original encoding process.

Question 16

What is Parallel distributed processing

Answer 16

recognition by distributed neural units (new facts can alter knowledge and memories)

Question 17

Describe memory storage and retrieval

Answer 17

Storage=encoding–>short term->long term

Retrieval= neural connections retrieve memory from location and bring to consciuosness.

Question 18

What effects memory

Answer 18

• emotional factors
• recall fade over time (decay theory)
• interference (old and new memories conflict)
• anterograde amnesia (memory loss from after accident)
• retrograde amnesia (loss of memory from before accident)

Question 19

Does repression occur

Answer 19

yes, less commonly

Can be retrieved by retrieval cues (sounds, smells, environments)

Question 20

Which biological parts of the brain are involved in memory (3)

Answer 20

• synapses
• dendrite connection
• the hippocampus

Question 21

Memory improvement strategies (7) DDLMMRT

Answer 21

• Drugs
• Distributed practice
• Long term linking (room with 4 corners and info in each)
• Mnemonic strategies (acronyms, songs etc)
• Massed practice
• Repetition
• Testing (flash cards)