MEMORYChapter Review

Process by which we retain and recall something learned or experienced.

What is memory?

Identify four parts of the brain were memory is stored. (lecture)

HippocampusAmygdalaFrontal Lobes/CortexCerebellum

Photographic memory is also called a. Eidetic memoryb. Confabulationc. Mnemonic memoryd. 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. Confabulationb. Selective attentionc. Recognitiond. recall

C; Recognition

Psychologist George Miller discovered that short-term memory is limited to about ___

a. Seven itemsb. 10 wordsc. One hourd. 14 numbers

A; seven items

Short term memorya. Lasts without rehearsalb. Lasts about one minutec. Lasts about one-half secondd. 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. Decayb. Repressionc. Interferenced. 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___________.

Repression

HOMES (an acronym for the five Great Lakes) is an example of this.

Mnemonic device

Two types of Long Term Memory are…

Implicit vs. Explicit Memory

And

Procedural vs. Declarative

__________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

Our knowledge of language, including its rules, words, and meanings is stored in __________.

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.

When a person remembers information that was never stored in memory.

confabulation

When you remember items at the beginning and end of a list or story, it is called __________effect.

Serial position

When you tend to remember the first items in a list or story it is called ________effect.

Primacy

“Seen Before” ; current event provokes similar retrieval cues, but you haven’t done it.

Déjà vu

Try to retrieve familiar piece of info but can’t quite do it.

Tip of the Tongue Phenomena

Who conducted studies of forgetting grouping nonsense syllables together?

Hermann Ebbinghaus