Memory: Review Activity
CP Psychology
1. The model we use to describe memory is the ______________________-____________________ Model
a. Includes Sensory Registers, Short Term Memory, and Long Term Memory
2. This part of your sensory register briefly holds images for 1-2 seconds: ____________________
3. This part of your sensory register holds sounds for slightly longer: __________________________
4. Short-term memory can hold approximately _____________ bits of information at once, +/- 2.
a. To increase the amount of raw information to be held in our STM, we can _____________ items.
b. Example:
5. If we “forget” information, it may just indicate a failure of retrieval.
a. As an example, a word or name being on the tip of your tongue
indicates your inability to __________ the memory. We use this type
of retrieval on “fill-in” sections of tests.
b. _____________________ is the second type of retrieval. It describes how we can select the correct
information from a list of hints, similar to a multiple choice test.
6. Steven Wiltshire could fly over cities then recreate their landscapes with great
detail. What type of memory did he have? _______________________
7. What is the name of the phenomenon of forgetting most childhood memories before the age of 3 or
4? ________________________________
8. “Decay” refers to the tendency to ____________ information over time.
9. Orange, banana, grape, lime, tangerine, lemon, apple, pear, clementine.
Which of the above terms are you most likely to forget, according to the serial position effect?
The primacy effect says we will remember the word ________________ because it received most
rehearsal.
The recency effect says we will remember the word _____________ because it is the most recent term
we heard.
10. Alzheimer’s is associated with the shrinkage of the _________________________ and depletion of the
neurotransmitter __________________________.
11. ______________________, aka explicit memories, are stored by the hippocampus
12. Which type of encoding (visual, acoustic, semantic) is best for long term recall? Why?
13. Taking your psych test in your psych classroom is easier than taking it in a bowling alley is easier
because you have _______________________ cues to trigger your memory in the classroom.
14. Types of interference include:
a. Retroactive interference: Trying to remember ______________
information (i.e. room numbers for _________________ classes) but newly
learned information interferes.
b. Proactive- Trying to _______________________________________________________
but a previously learned language gets in the way.
15. Joey remembers his most recent trip to the beach. This is consider a(n) ____________________ memory.
16. Henry’s ability to snowboard even after he hasn’t done it in 10 years is called a(n) ____________________
memory.
a. This type of memory is encoded by the _________________________.
17. Knowing that our principal’s name is Mr. Occhino is called a(n) ____________________ memory.
18. Though Clementine can’t remember ever having visited the Charles River when it was frozen, she
has an inexplicable attachment to it. This may be considered a(n):____________________ memory.
a. Emotional memories are storied with help from the _________________________.
19. Dory from finding Nemo can recall memories from before her coral reef accident, but cannot create
any new memories since her accident. What type of amnesia is she experiencing?:
a. What if it were the opposite (i.e. forgetting what happened right before accident)?:
b. Brain structure that’s most likely damaged: __________________________.
20. Many people remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard about
the 9/11 attacks. Vivid memories of emotion events are called: __________________________ memories.
21. When a child first learns about the planets, we are taught “My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us
Nine Pizzas”. Any type of rehearsal that requires making a deeper meaning out of the information to
be remembered is called _______________________ rehearsal.
a. Opposite this is ___________ rehearsal, in which we simply repeat the information to be
remembered over and over again.
22. If you tell a story that you heard on TV and incorrectly site it as something you read on the internet,
you are experiencing ___________________ confusion.
23. Remembering your weekend as fun and exciting when you are in a good mood and dissatisfying
when you are in a bad mood is called ___________________.
24. Joe meets someone out at a party and then sees them the next day at the grocery store. He doesn’t
remember the person’s name, but it comes back to him at the next party he is at. This is called
____________- dependent memory.
25. Why is eyewitness testimony less reliable than we previously used to believe?
26. Where are most memories stored once they are encoded? ____________________________________.
27. Practice remembering the following shopping list using the “peg word” technique and the “method
of loci”:
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Ice cream
Fudge pops
Italian Ice
Pudding
Cake mix
Peg Word:
Method of Loci:
28. Encode the following phone number by making a sentence using words that contain the number of
letters indicated by each digit of the phone number. (143= I love you).
312-485-6274
29. Encode the following East Coast states by making up a sentence using words that contain the same
first letter as each president’s last name. (Pepsi Sprite Coke Water= People should consult wizards).
Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware.