Prep Guide
Chapter 6: Memory
Summarize the memory strategies outlined in your textbook.
Define memory in your own words.
What is the three-system approach to memory?
Draw and define each stage in the three-system approach to memory:
What is chunking and why is it useful?
Transferring information from short- to long-term memory depends largely on rehearsal;
explain why rehearsal is so important.
In your own words, discuss what is meant by elaborative rehearsal and why this is better
than simply repeating information over again.
What is meant by working memory and how does the central executive processor
coordinate the visual, verbal, and episodic store?
Distinguish between the long-term memory subcategories of declarative and procedural
memory.
Briefly distinguish between the two subtypes of declarative memory: semantic and
episodic memory.
What are semantic networks?
What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
What are retrieval cues and why are they helpful?
Differentiate between the ability recall and recognize information. Which is easier and
why?
Briefly describe the levels-of-processing theory.
Why deep level processing preferred over shallow levels?
Differentiate between explicit and implicit memories.
How is priming involved in explaining implicit memory?
What are flashbulb memories?
How do schemas influence the constructive process of memory?
Briefly summarize why eyewitnesses testimony is often unreliable.
What factors make children particularly poor eyewitnesses?
What are repressed memories?
Briefly summarize Elizabeth Loftus’ view on repressed and false memories.
What are autobiographical memories?
Briefly summarize the theories of why we forget (encoding, decay, interference, and cuedependent forgetting).
Differentiate between proactive and retroactive interference.
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
Briefly define amnesia and then differentiate between retrograde and anterograde
amnesia.
Summarize the major parts of the brain involved in the consolidation of memories,
encoding, and emotional memories.
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Memory, Memory Parts 1 and 2, Long-Term Memory Capacity, and Eyewitnesses).
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