Memory
Matt is angry when he's reading his economics book. He is likely to recall the contents better if he's angry is called
Mood congruency
Your mom rattles off a grocery list but you have nothing to write it on items most likely to forget
The middle of the list
Hermann Ebbinghaus taught that:
The more time a person spends trying to remember, the more likely he will.
Which theory compares a human memory to the processes of a computer
Three-box model
You studied geometry as a sophomore, but as a senior , you have trouble remembering the subject. Example of
Transience
The part of your explicit memory that includes specific events like birthdays or graduation
episodic memory
The human capacity for storing long-term memories is
essentially unlimited
although long term memory is relatively permanent it is also
limited in how much information it can process at one time
You believe you heard information from a friend when it was actually told to you by your father
misattribution
Which part of memory is the only part that is 100% accurate
sensory memory
The ability to recall a list of items after only one reading is known as
Eidetic memory
Mr. Bratton remembers the names of last year students but not last year names
Proactive interference
Which is the CORRECT order for the three R's of memory
Retrieve, recognize, recall
Organizing information into meaningful units.
chunking
Remembering things that never happened can be called
confabulation
Taped information played during sleep is "heard" but not remembered because retention requires
effortful processing
Automatic processing involves
effortless encoding of certain types of information
Short term memory is to ______ as long term memory is to ________
encode, store
seeking particular associations to start the retrieval process is called
priming
The hardest part of implicit memory to express to others
procedural
Which is NOT an example of serial position effect?
procedural memory
Remembering on Monday that you have an appointment on Friday is a:
prospective memory
A songwriter believes she's written an original piece of music but discovers it's a lot like an old NSync song.
source amnesia
The "method of loci" is to imagine _______ when the information was encoded
where you were
Unlike implicit memories, explicit memories are processed by the
hippocampus
The "next in line" effect illustrates
An encoding failure of names
"False memories" acquired through hypnosis might light up the _______ on a PET scan
Left temporal lobe
The increased efficiency of neural circuitry (faster neural network) that contributes to memory storage is known as
Long term potentiation
Which theory states that it's easier to remember things if you bond them to things you already know
Semantic networking
To study the last hour before an exam is:
Shallow processing
After looking up a phone number in a phone book you remember it long enough to type in the numbers stored in
Short term memory
You remember more from a full semester class that an intense two week course. This illustrates the importance of:
Spacing effect
A problem forming new memories that occurs due to hippocampus damage
anterograde amnesia
Short term memory is slightly better for:
auditory information
We sometimes alter our memories to fit our personal view of an event. These are called:
autobiographical memories
Effortful processing can only occur with:
conscious attention
To remember the branches of the nervous system, you picture the PowerPoint line chart. You are using:
hierarchy
Compared to adults, children are more susceptible to:
misinformation effect
Iconic memory refers to:
photographic, or picture-image, memory that lasts for only about a second.
Remembering an event with fondness long after it has ended.
rosy retrospective