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Proactive Interference
The tendency for prior learning to inhibit recall of later learning is called…
Recognition
Twenty years after graduating, a subject is able to correctly identify photographs of students she attended highschool with from a larger group of strangers. To do so she has used what?
Implicit Memory
Memories that are outside of conscious Memory and are hard to recall or recognise are called…
Hippocampus
The part of the brain that plays a major role in memory is what?
A patient guided by an incompetent therapist might confuse dreams with memories
Criticism of recovered memories of abuse has centered on the fact that…
Encoding
Transforming incoming information into a usable form is the stage of memory is called?
Memory
The cognitive capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information is called?
Limitless
The storage capacity of long term memory is basically described as what?
sematic memory
memories of historical facts
episodic memory
memories of your breakfast this morning
Episodic, Procedural, Sematic memory
Not a type of Long Term memoery
Procedural Memory
The type of LTM in which stimulus response associations, and skilled patterns of response are stored is called what?
Semantic Memory
The type of LTM in which facts, vocabulary, simple concepts, and rules are stored.
Episodic Memory
The type of memory in which personal experiences are stored is called?
recognition
Multiple choice questions require…
recall
essay questions require…
semantic memory
intelligence tests for adults usually has a general knowledge section which tests for…
Sensory memory
The first step inplacing information into memory is to encode it from…
Short term memory
recoding, chunking, and rehearsal are especially important for the improvement of which type of memory
Overlearning, memory based
The improvement of memory to truly exceptional levels involves what?
Selective attention
What determines what information moves from sensory memory to short term memory?
overlearning
improves memory
re-learning
When students who go to graduate school have to brush up on a foreign language they learned before, they find it easier the second time around. This illustrates?
Short term memory
this type of memory can be seriously affected by interruption
short term memory
looking up a phone number and then remembering it while you are dialing is an example of what type of memory
7(plus or minus 2)
“magic number” that represents average number of memorable information
episodic memory
memory is that part of long-term memory containing personal experiences
sensory memory
The kind of memory that lasts for only a second or two
Retroactive interference
When new learning disrupts the ability to recall past, stored information, … has been said to occur
Elizabeth loftus
The scientist who is most famous for her studies on memoery
Flashbulb memories
type of memory that are usually vivid, easy to recall and is associated with high levels of emotional arousal is called what?
sensory, short term, long-term memory
The correct order for the three stages of memory
mnemonic devices
strategies for improving retrieval that take advantage of existing memories in order to make new material more meaningful is called…
Implicit memory
An expert typist who cannot describe the exact location of letters on a keyboard is demonstrating the importance of…
Explicit memory
A memory that a person is aware of having, or a memory that is consciously retrieved, is called…
Procedural memory
A brain-injured patient can still play the piano but is unable to recall or relearn the broad outlines of American history is superior in…
schema
an organized, general knowledge of some particular thing
“Study early, Study often!”
“Study early, Study often!”
Elizabeth Loftus Study
memory is always changing and malleable
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