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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Schema: | A set of beliefs or expectations about something that is based on past experience. |
| Episodic memories: | The portion of long-term memory that stores personally experienced events. |
| Semantic memories: | The portion of long-term memory that stores general facts and information. |
| Procedural memories: | The portion of long-term memory that stores information relating to skills, habits, and other perceptual-motor tasks. |
| Emotional memories: | Learned emotional responses to various stimuli. |
| Explicit memory: | Memory for information that we can readily express in words and are aware of having; these memories can be intentionally retrieved from memory. |
| Implicit memory: | Memory for information that we cannot readily express in words and may not be aware of having these memories cannot be intentionally retrieved from memory. |
| Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon (TOT): | Knowing a word, but not being able to immediately recall it. |
| Decay theory: | A theory that argues that the passage of time causes forgetting. |
| Retrograde amnesia: | The inability to recall events preceding an accident or injury, but without loss of earlier memory. |
| Retroactive interference: | The process by which new information interferes with information already in memory. |
| Proactive interference: | The process by which information already in memory interferes with new information. |
| Flashbulb memory: | A vivid memory of a certain event and the incidents surrounding it even after a long time has passed. |
| Attention: | The selection of some incoming information for further processing. |
| Short-term memory: | Working memory; briefly stores and processes selected information from the sensory registers. |
| Chunking: | The grouping of information into meaningful units for easier handling by short-term memory. |
| Encoding: | The process of putting information into memory. |
| Rote rehearsal: | Retaining information in memory simply by repeating it over and over. |
| Long-term memory: | The portion of memory that is more or less permanent, corresponding to everything we "know." |
| Elaborative rehearsal: | The linking of new information in short-term memory to familiar material stored in long-term memory. |
| Sensory memory: | Stores a large amount of information for very short periods. Two dominant Sensory Memories are vision & hearing. |
| Visual Sensory Memory, or iconic memory: | Visual Sensory Memory, or iconic memory, is the sensory store associated with vision, lasts for about a half second. |
| The storage system for hearing is called echoic memory: | Which, as its name applies, is something like a brief echo-one that can last for five or ten seconds. |
| Using memory involves three interrelated activities in the following order: | 1. Encoding 2. Storage 3. Retrieval |
| The sensory registers have virtually unlimited capacity | True |
| Some kids of information are stored permanently in the sensory registers | False |
| Auditory information fades from the sensory registers more quickly than visual information does | False |
| The filter theory as modified by Treisman holds that attention is like an on-and-off switch. | False |
| Memory is what we are thinking about any given moment. Its function is briefly store new information and to work on that and other information: | Short-term memory |
| Enables us to group items into meaningful units: | Chunking |
| Rehearsal, or simply repeating information over and over, is an effective way if retaining information for just a minute or two: | Rote rehearsal |
| Your sister looks up a phone number in the phone book, but then can't find the phone. By the time she finds the phone, she has forgotten the number. While she was looking for the phone, she apparently failed to engage in: | Rote rehearsal |
| The primary effect accounts for why we remember items at the - of a list, while the recency effect accounts for why we remember items at the - of the list | Beginning; end |
| If information is learned through repetition, this process is - rehearsal; if it is learned by linking it to other memories, this process is - rehearsal | Rote rehearsal; Elaborative rehearsal |
| A schema us a framework in memory into which new information is fit. Is this statement true or false | True |
| Implicit memories consist of - and - memories, whereas explicit memories consist of - and - memories | Procedural memories; Emotional memories; Episodic memories; Semantic memories |
| You run into an old friend who gives you his phone number and asks you to call. You to be sure to remember the phone number, so you related the number to things that you already know. "555" is the same as the combination to your bicycle lock. | Elaborative rehearsal |
| He: "We've been to this restaurant before." She: "I don't think so." | Episodic memory |
| Short-term memories: | Prefrontal cortex and temporal lobe |
| Long-term semantic and episodic memories: | Frontal and temporal lobes |
| Procedural memories: | Cerebellum and motor cortex |
| Emotional memories: | Amygdala |
| Oliver Sacks, the author of the Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, | The hippocampus |
| Imagine now that you encounter someone like Jimmie G., but in this case, the person cannot form new emotional memories: | The amygdala |
| Forgetting because new information makes it harder to remember information already in memory: | Retroactive interference |
| Forgetting because old information in memory makes it harder to learn new information: | Proactive interference |
| Can result from head injury or electroconvulsive therapy: | Retrograde amnesia |
| You are trying to explain to someone that "forgetting" sometimes occurs because of the reconstructive nature of long-term memory. Which of the following would be an example that you might use to support your position?: | People often rewrite their memories of past events to fit their current view or desired view of themselves. |
| You are given a chance to earn $10 if you can correctly learn a list of 20 words. You have 5 minutes to learn the entire list. At the end of that time, you can recite the list perfectly. | Retroactive interference |
| You are talking with someone from a different culture who is not very good at remembering long lists of random words or numbers, but who can recite from memory all of his ancestors going back hundreds of years.: | The values and customs of a given culture have a profound effect on what people remember. |
| Your mother is reminiscing about your first birthday party and asks you, "Do you remember when Aunt Mary dropped her piece of cake in you lap?" Try as you might, you can't recall that incident.: | Infantile amnesia |
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Hanna1975