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Psy 101 ch 7
Memory
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered what? | the delay between memorization and recall caused forgetting a large portion of the material |
| Ebbinghaus invented ...? | nonsense syllables (2300) put into random to lists |
| Von Restorff effect is? | remembering unusual items better than more common items |
| the difference between recall and Cued recalls? | to Recall is to produce an answer such as on a small test question. Cued recall you are provided with hints( fill in the blanks) |
| Recognition? | multiple choice tests, being able to pick out |
| the savings(relearning)? | the measure of which new material is learned to the relearning of old material |
| Declarative memory? | the ability to state a fact |
| procedural memory? | memory of how to do something |
| long term declarative memory? | classified as either semantic/episodic |
| explicit memory | memory we are aware we are using |
| implicit memory | experiences that have influenced us without any awareness e.g priming |
| the first stage of memory processing? | sensory store |
| consolidation | the formation of a long term memory |
| 3 major components of a working memory | phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad and a central executive governing shifts of attention |
| superficial processing | repeating the material you are trying to revise |
| deeper processing | thinking about each item or each part of the material |
| still deeper processing | noting the association between the items or part of the material |
| state dependent memory | remembering something better if your physical condition is the same at the time of the recall as it was at the time of learning |
| hindsight bias | the tendency to mold our recollection of the past to how events later turned out |
| procative interference | retaining old material makes it harder to recall new material |
| retroactive interference | learning new material makes it hard to recall old material |
| anterograde amnesia | difficulty learning new information |
| retrograde amnesia | difficulty retrieving old memories |