Jeopardy Kinds of Memory Processes of Memory Stages of Memory Measuring Memory Improving Memory Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Kinds of Memory General knowledge that we have, but we don’t know when we acquired it = 2 for example

$100 Answer from Kinds of Memory What is Generic/Semantic Memory?

$200 Question from Kinds of Memory A memory for a specific event, such as your first day of school.

$200 Answer from Kinds of Memory What is Episodic Memory?

$300 Question from Kinds of Memory The kind of memory that consists of the skills we have learned. (How to ride a bike, for instance)

$300 Answer from Kinds of Memory What is procedural memory?

$400 Question from Kinds of Memory A type of episodic memory that is remembered in great deal due to its significance, surprise, and emotion. (9/11 for instance)

$400 Answer from Kinds of Memory What is a Flashbulb Memory?

$500 Question from Kinds of Memory When you remember what the word snow means you use this type of memory.

$500 Answer from Kinds of Memory What is Generic/Semantic Memory?

$100 Question from Processes of Memory The maintenance of encoded information over time.

$100 Answer from Processes of Memory What is storage?

$200 Question from Processes of Memory Processing information into the memory system. This can be done visually, acoustically, or semantically

$200 Answer from Processes of Memory What is encoding?

$300 Question from Processes of Memory The reason a person is unable to draw the front of a penny is because he/she did not do this process of memory.

$300 Answer from Processes of Memory What is encoding?

$400 Question from Processes of Memory The process of getting information out of memory.

$400 Answer from Processes of Memory What is retrieval?

$500 Question from Processes of Memory Depositing money in the bank is a good analogy for the three processes of memory. Explain how each of the processes is represented.

$500 Answer from Processes of Memory Depositing money = encoding Keeping the money in the account = storage Withdrawing the money = retrieval

$100 Question from Stages of Memory The name of the immediate, initial recording of information that enters through one of our senses.

$100 Answer from Stages of Memory What is sensory memory?

$200 Question from Stages of Memory Another name for short-term memory.

$200 Answer from Stages of Memory What is working memory?

$300 Question from Stages of Memory The number of items that can be held in our short-term memory and the length of time they can be held without rehearsal.

$300 Answer from Stages of Memory What is 7 (+ or – 2) items for about 20 seconds?

$400 Question from Stages of Memory The stage of memory that is limitless both in capacity and duration (length of time it can be stored).

$400 Answer from Stages of Memory What is long-term memory?

$500 Question from Stages of Memory Another name for photographic memory.

$500 Answer from Stages of Memory What is eidetic memory?

$100 Question from Ways of Measuring Memory The easiest memory task that merely involves identifying objects that have been encountered before

$100 Answer from Ways of Measuring Memory What is a recognition?

$200 Question from Ways of Measuring Memory Multiple Choice questions are an example of this way of measuring memory, while short answer or essay questions are an example of this way of measuring memory

$200 Answer from Ways of Measuring Memory What are recognition and recall?

$300 Question from Ways of Measuring Memory When an eyewitness tries to identify the criminal from a lineup of suspects he is using this type of memory retrieval process.

$300 Answer from Ways of Measuring Memory What is recognition?

$400 Question from Ways of Measuring Memory The procedure for measuring memory in which the effort required to learn the material a second time is compared with the effort needed for the initial learning experience. Daily Double

$400 Answer from Ways of Measuring Memory What is relearning?

$500 Question from Ways of Measuring Memory The names of the 7 dwarfs and the memory task needed to come up with the answer.

$500 Answer from Ways of Measuring Memory Who are… Happy Dopey Doc Bashful Sneezy Grumpy Sleepy? What is recall

$100 Question from Ways of Improving Memory The technique one is using when one does mechanical repetition.

$100 Answer from Ways of Improving Memory What is Drill and Practice or Maintenance Rehearsal?

$200 Question from Ways of Improving Memory Catchwords, jingles or phrases to help you recall a particular fact. Righty tighty, lefty loosey for example

$200 Answer from Ways of Improving Memory What is a mnemonic device?

$300 Question from Ways of Improving Memory The tendency to recall the items appearing first in a list better than items in the middle.

$300 Answer from Ways of Improving Memory What is the primacy effect?

$400 Question from Ways of Improving Memory The tendency to recall items at the end of a list better than those in the middle.

$400 Answer from Ways of Improving Memory What is the recency effect?

$500 Question from Ways of Improving Memory One of the best techniques for improving memory that requires you to think about the material and relate it to something you already know.

$500 Answer from Ways of Improving Memory What is elaborative rehearsal?

Final Jeopardy Zandy lights a sparkler and hands it to her young son, Zeon. She tells Zeon to write his name in the air with the Sparkler. She can see this “writing” because the light from the sparkler is held briefly in this stage of her memory.

Final Jeopardy Answer What is sensory memory?