General Psychology Test Ch.8

Chapter 8.

procedural memory helps us remember how to 

ride a bike 

what is the term for the ability to remember information without needing cues?

Recall

Episodic memory

Personal experiences and specefic events

Semantic memory

Knowledge about facts and concepts

procedural memory 

memory for actions and skills

Retrieval Practice

The act of recalling information from memory.

Hippocampus

crucial for forming new explicit memories

Amygdala

process emotions and the emotional aspects of memories

Cerebellum

Involved in storing procedural memories.

Prefrontal Cortex

Involved in semantic tasks and memory retrieval.

memory consolidation is curcial for transfering information from BLANK memory to BLANK memory 

short-term to long-term

memories formed through classical conditioning are an example of

Implicit memory

the type of memory primarily responsible for skills like riding a bike is

procedural memory

The hippocampus is crucial for the formation of …

explicit memories

the type of memory that involves recalling events from ones life is….

episodic memory

memory can be distorted through the process of ……

reconstruction

Implicit memory includes memories that we can consciously recall, such as facts and events.  True or False 

False

Encoding

the process of inputting information into memory

Sorage

The retention of encoded information

Retrieval

Accessing and recovering stored information

Rehearsal

The conscious repetition of information 

The capacity of short-term memory is generally considered to be about 7 items, plus or minus 2. True or false

True

the process of getting information out of memory is referred to as

retrieval

Transience explains how memories can fade over time due to the passage of time. True or False

True

Stress hormones can affect the BLANK and memory formation. 

Amygdala

Suggestibility can lead to the creation of false BLANKS from external BLANKS.

Memories and Sources

Transience

Accessibility of memory decreases over time.

Blocking

temporary inability to access information

Amnesia

Loss of memory due to injury or trauma.

Misattribution

confusion about the source of a memory.

which part of the brain is primarily responsible for the consolidation of explicit memories?

Hippocampus

what is the misinformation affect?

when a person’s memory of an event is altered after exposure to incorrect information. 

memory encoding includes different processes, such as semantic encoding, which involves the BLANK of words and their associations

meaning

Implicit memory involves conscious recollection of information. True or False

False