Unit 6 Test review-Memory

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Proactive Interference

The tendency for prior learning to inhibit recall of later learning is called…

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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?

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Implicit Memory

Memories that are outside of conscious Memory and are hard to recall or recognise are called…

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Hippocampus

The part of the brain that plays a major role in memory is what?

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A patient guided by an incompetent therapist might confuse dreams with memories

Criticism of recovered memories of abuse has centered on the fact that…

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Encoding

Transforming incoming information into a usable form is the stage of memory is called?

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Memory

The cognitive capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information is called?

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Limitless

The storage capacity of long term memory is basically described as what?

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sematic memory

memories of historical facts

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episodic memory

memories of your breakfast this morning

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Episodic, Procedural, Sematic memory

Not a type of Long Term memoery

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Procedural Memory

The type of LTM in which stimulus response associations, and skilled patterns of response are stored is called what?

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Semantic Memory

The type of LTM in which facts, vocabulary, simple concepts, and rules are stored.

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Episodic Memory

The type of memory in which personal experiences are stored is called?

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recognition

Multiple choice questions require…

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recall

essay questions require…

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semantic memory

intelligence tests for adults usually has a general knowledge section which tests for…

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Sensory memory

The first step inplacing information into memory is to encode it from…

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Short term memory

recoding, chunking, and rehearsal are especially important for the improvement of which type of memory

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Overlearning, memory based

The improvement of memory to truly exceptional levels involves what?

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Selective attention

What determines what information moves from sensory memory to short term memory?

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overlearning

improves memory

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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?

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Short term memory

this type of memory can be seriously affected by interruption

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short term memory

looking up a phone number and then remembering it while you are dialing is an example of what type of memory

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7(plus or minus 2)

“magic number” that represents average number of memorable information

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episodic memory

memory is that part of long-term memory containing personal experiences

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sensory memory

The kind of memory that lasts for only a second or two

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Retroactive interference

When new learning disrupts the ability to recall past, stored information, … has been said to occur

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Elizabeth loftus

The scientist who is most famous for her studies on memoery

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Flashbulb memories

type of memory that are usually vivid, easy to recall and is associated with high levels of emotional arousal is called what?

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sensory, short term, long-term memory

The correct order for the three stages of memory

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mnemonic devices

strategies for improving retrieval that take advantage of existing memories in order to make new material more meaningful is called…

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Implicit memory

An expert typist who cannot describe the exact location of letters on a keyboard is demonstrating the importance of…

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Explicit memory

A memory that a person is aware of having, or a memory that is consciously retrieved, is called…

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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…

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schema

an organized, general knowledge of some particular thing

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“Study early, Study often!”

“Study early, Study often!”

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Elizabeth Loftus Study

memory is always changing and malleable

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