Sherrill General Psychology Chapter 6 Flash Cards

Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)

QUESTION .1

What is the 3 step process included in

the definition of memory?


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QUESTION .2

Perception and translation of a particular

stimulus so that the information can be more

easily stored is the definition of what term?


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QUESTION .3

The efficiency of the storage process is

greatly influenced by the _____ we put into

encoding or organizing new memories.


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QUESTION .4

_______ is defined as our ability to access information that was properly encoded and

stored in memory.


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QUESTION .5

Information in our sensory memory

disappears within a few second if we do

not ______ (2 answers)


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QUESTION .6

The short-lived memory for visual

information is called?


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QUESTION .7

The short-lived memory for auditory information is called

what?


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QUESTION .8

You are able to respond to something that you thought you

did not hear, but actually did hear, because of what?


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QUESTION .9

Short term memory is also known as

what?


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QUESTION .10

The process of grouping items into shorter meaningful units to make them

easier to remember is called?


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QUESTION .11

This is the type of long term memory for how to perform certain activities.


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QUESTION .12

This is the type of long term memory

that is also known as photographic memory.


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QUESTION .13

This is the type of long term memory

needed to successfully do well on exams in college.


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QUESTION .14

Your personal or autobiographical

memories for events you experience in life is called what?


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QUESTION .15

__________ devices organize information in meaningful ways

and make it easier to remember at a later

time.


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QUESTION .16

The meaningful arrangement of letters that assist in memory

retrieval is called?


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QUESTION .17

You witness a hit and run and repeat the license

plate over and over again in your head in an attempt to remember it.

What are you using?


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QUESTION .18

Purposely trying to connect new information with information already

stored in LTM is called what?


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QUESTION .19Don cannot remember his class schedule from last semester because

he has focused so much on his current

schedule. This is an example of:


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QUESTION .20

This occurs when old information, already

in LTM, interferes with one’s ability to recall

newly acquired information.


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QUESTION .21

It is the end of January and I still keep putting last year when writing

the date. This is an example of which type

of interference?


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QUESTION .22

This occurs when newly acquired

information interferes with the recall of older memories.


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QUESTION .23

You are only able to remember the names of the last few people who you were introduced to at your new job. This is

known as?


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QUESTION .24

You can only remember the first few items on the

grocery list that you have lost. This is an

example of?


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QUESTION .25

The loss of memory due to altered

physiology (damage or illness) of the brain is called?


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QUESTION .26

Maria cannot remember anything

that happened before she fell of the cliff.

She would have what type of amnesia?


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QUESTION .27

Ever since his car accident, Paul has

been unable to form any new memories.

This would be an example of what?


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QUESTION .28

_______ states that it is easier to recall information when you are in the same physiological or emotional state or setting as when

you originally encoded the information.


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QUESTION .29

Vivid recollections, usually in great detail,

of dramatic or emotionally charged incidents that are of

interest to the person.


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QUESTION .30

This term refers to groups of neurons whose structures have been altered

by learning.


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QUESTION .31

An increase in a neuron’s SENSITIVITY to

fire (stimulation) following a burst of

signals to that neuron’s dendrites is called what?


ANSWER .31

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