M EMORY 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 short- term 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