Memory

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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


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