MEMORY
Chapter Review
Process by which we retain and recall something
learned or experienced.
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What is memory?
Identify four parts of the brain were memory is
stored. (lecture)
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Frontal Lobes/Cortex
Cerebellum
Photographic memory is also called
a. Eidetic memory
b. Confabulation
c. Mnemonic memory
d. Recall
A. Eidetic memory
The three memory process are …
Encoding, storage, and retrieval
Items in your mind at any given moment are in
___memory.
Short term
Skills make use of ____memory.
Procedural
Psychologists refer to auditory sensory memory as
___
Echoic memory
Psychologists refer to visual sensory memory
as______
Iconic memory
Which of the following describes your ability to
identify the name of your first grade teacher in a
newspaper article?
a. Confabulation
b. Selective attention
c. Recognition
d. recall
C; Recognition
Psychologist George Miller discovered that shortterm memory is limited to about ___
a. Seven items
b. 10 words
c. One hour
d. 14 numbers
A; seven items
Short term memory
a. Lasts without rehearsal
b. Lasts about one minute
c. Lasts about one-half second
d. Has a limited capacity.
D; has a limited capacity
Repeating information to yourself to keep
information in short term memory for more than
a few seconds is called _________.
Maintenance rehearsal
Which of the following does NOT result in
forgetting?
a. Decay
b. Repression
c. Interference
d. confabulation
D; Confabulation
When old memories are blocked by new material, a
person is experience _____________.
proactive interference
When you ____information, you transform it so the
nervous system can process it.
encode
Short term memory capacity is increased when we
break the info down into parts. This is called
______________.
Chunking
Subconsciously blocking memories of an
embarrassing or frightening experience is
called___________.
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Repression
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HOMES (an acronym for the five Great Lakes) is
an example of this.
Mnemonic device
Two types of Long Term Memory are…
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Implicit vs. Explicit Memory
And
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Procedural vs. Declarative
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__________memory is our memory of our own life,
such as when you woke up this morning. Stored
here are personal things where time of
occurrence is important.
Episodic
____________consists of permanent storage of
learned skills that does not require conscious
recollection.
Procedural
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Our knowledge of language, including its rules,
words, and meanings is stored in __________.
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Semantic memory
When we need to retrieve information we learned a
long time ago and haven’t rehearsed lately, we
can relearn the information more quickly. This is
called _____________.
Relearning.
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When a person remembers information that was
never stored in memory.
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confabulation
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When you remember items at the beginning and
end of a list or story, it is called __________effect.
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Serial position
When you tend to remember the first items in a list
or story it is called ________effect.
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Primacy
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“Seen Before” ; current event provokes similar
retrieval cues, but you haven’t done it.
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Déjà vu
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Try to retrieve familiar piece of info but can’t
quite do it.
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Tip of the Tongue Phenomena
Who conducted studies of forgetting grouping
nonsense syllables together?
Hermann Ebbinghaus