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MEMORY
Chapter 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)
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Frontal Lobes/Cortex
Cerebellum
Photographic memory is also called
a. Eidetic memory
b. Confabulation
c. Mnemonic memory
d. 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. Confabulation
b. Selective attention
c. Recognition
d. recall
C; Recognition
Psychologist George Miller discovered that shortterm memory is limited to about ___
a. Seven items
b. 10 words
c. One hour
d. 14 numbers
A; seven items
Short term memory
a. Lasts without rehearsal
b. Lasts about one minute
c. Lasts about one-half second
d. 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. Decay
b. Repression
c. Interference
d. 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