This game can be used to review concepts covered during a Memory Unit in an Introductory Psychology course.
Memory
Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Forgetting
100
Where you were Define encoding This term refers A fill in the
Define
on 9/11 is an
(the processing of to our fleeting
blank test relies
repression
example of this
information into
photographic
on a person’s
(banishing
(Flashbulb
the memory
memory (iconic ability to do this arousing
memory)
system)
memory)
(recall)
thoughts)
200
What term refers This processing
Auditory
This refers to
Who is the
to retaining
requires attention sensory images “wakening of
researcher who
information
and conscious
are remembered associations”
studied nonsense
(storage)
effort (effortful)
here (echoic
(priming)
syllables
memory)
(Ebbinghaus)
300
This type of
This term refers
This refers to
Remembering
Not being able to
memory attends to a way we can
the prolonged
something when remember what
to immediate
boost our
strengthening of you are sad from the “real” penny
sensory
memory
potential neural a previous sad
looks like is an
information
(rehearsal)
firing (longtime is called
example of this
(sensory
term
(mood(encoding
memory)
potentiation)
congruent)
failure)
400
This type of
This type of
Explicit
Explain déjà vu. Define Proactive
memory is also
processing is
memories are
(cues from a
Interference
known as
unconscious
processed for
current situation (disruptive effect
Working
(automatic)
storage in this
subconsciously
of prior learning
Memory (Short
part of the brain trigger an earlier on recall of new
term Memory)
(hippocampus)
experience)
information)
500
What is Long
This term refers
This type of
ROY G BIV is
What are the 3
Term Memory? to remembering
memory would
an example of
sins of
(the relatively
the first and last
recall how to do one of these
forgetting?
permanent and
items in a list the something
(retrieval cue)
(absentlimitless
best (serial
(procedural)
mindedness,
storehouse of the position effect)
transience and
memory system)
blocking)
600
What are the
Give an example This type of
What type of test I’m taking French,
but I can’t
three steps of
of chunking
memory would
would use
remember the
information
(putting large
recall a birthdate recognition
Spanish alphabet
processing
amounts of items (explicit
(either multiple
from last year is an
(encoding,
into smaller
memory)
choice or
example of
storage and
groups or
matching would (retroactive
retrieval)
chunks)
work)
interference)
Construct/Improve
Attributing to the
wrong source an
event that we have
experienced is
(source amnesia)
True or false: it is
difficult to tell
children’s true
memories from
constructed ones
What is the PRTR
method (preview
read think and
review reading
material)
What is an
advantage of the
PRTR method –
improve recall
She received the
American
Psychological
Society’s William
James Fellow
Award (Elizabeth
Loftus)
True or false: Our
memories of
witnessed events
are fallible if
prompted by
misleading
questions