Unit 6 Test review-Memory

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