Psych 2.3 - 2.7

  • Iconic memory definition
    → A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli lasting a few tenths of a second

  • Creating an outline to remember textbook material best illustrates
    → Hierarchical organization

  • The human capacity for storing long-term memories is
    → Essentially limitless

  • Which type of memory has the shortest duration?
    → Sensory memory

  • Ebbinghaus forgetting curve shows that
    → The most rapid memory loss occurs shortly after learning

  • Accurate recall long after an earthquake illustrates
    → Flashbulb memory

  • Recalling ship as boat and professor as teacher illustrates
    → Semantic processing

  • Loftus & Palmer found eyewitness memories
    → Portrayed the event as more serious than it actually was

  • Network that processes and stores explicit memories includes
    → Frontal lobes and hippocampus

  • Damage that interferes with forming new vacation memories
    → Hippocampus

  • Cerebellum and basal ganglia process
    → Implicit memories

  • Short-term memory as active processing is called
    → Working memory

  • Imagined childhood events research shows
    → People can easily form false memories

  • Unconsciously encoding daily event sequences illustrates
    → Automatic processing

  • Short-term memory capacity is increased by
    → Chunking

  • Effortful processing requires
    → Conscious attention

  • Short-term memory holds about how many bits?
    → 7

  • Two-track mind is shown by the difference between
    → Implicit and explicit memory

  • Inability to form new memories is called
    → Anterograde amnesia

  • Getting information into memory is called
    → Encoding

  • Forgetting a painful teacher illustrates (Freud)
    → Repression

  • Feeling you’ve done something before after a brief glance
    → Déjà vu

  • Fill-in-the-blank tests measure
    → Recall

  • Serial position effect: best recall of
    → First and last items

  • New biology study interfering with earlier chemistry learning
    → Retroactive interference

  • Memorizing lines on set to remember better shows
    → Context-dependent memory

  • New password makes you forget the old one
    → Retroactive interference

  • Long-term potentiation refers to
    → Increased neural firing after rapid stimulation (basis of learning/memory)

  • Eyewitness identifying a criminal uses
    → Recognition

  • Three basic measures of memory retention
    → Recall, recognition, and relearning