Week 5 Remembering And Forgetting Flashcards
Connecting new information to material which is already known is called …
Elaborative rehearsal
Declarative memory can involve either ______ or ______ memory
Semantic; episodic
What is the normal range of information people can hold in short term memory?
Five to nine items
William James argued that _____ memory is immediate for information momentarily held in consciousness, whereas ______ memory is the vast store of information.
Primary; secondary
If the __________ are damaged, you can expect that there will be deficits in episodic memory but not in semantic memory
Frontal lobes
In the modern view, memory consists of modules which….
Operate simultaneously
__________ are vivid memories of significant events
Flashbulb memories
The standard model of memory is predicated on the metaphor of the mind as a computer in which memory consists of three stores:
Sensory memory; short-term memory; long-term memory
Everyday memory is….
Memory in the naturalistic setting
The observation of case studies of neurologically damaged individuals demonstrates that…
Memory is not unitary
Which is NOT associated with forgetting?
Memory loss is a slow and gradual thing
Your general knowledge of what you have learned so far in this course is called…
Semantic memory
__________ explains forgetting as a result of a fading memory trace
Decay theory
On a particular dreary weekend day, I am sitting at home watching a sappy love movie. Following the movie, I try to remember all the people in my past that I truly loved. This would be an example of…
Free-recall task
