Psych Chapter 7

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When the short-term memory is full, ____ occurs as new information this place is what was there first

Interference

What process is your brains organizational systems part of

Storage

Why are flashbulb memories particularly vivid

The distinctness and meaningness

What are schemas

The mental representation of the world

Describe iconic memory

Photographic images very brief

How long is information and short-term memory

10 to 20 seconds

Understand recall and how much it can drop, and when

After first hour you learn something in the recall it

How does paying attention contribute to information storage

Causes transfer info from sensory memory to short-term memory

What is a mnemonic device

Combine chunks of info into catchy formats

The fading away of a memory over time is

Decay

What are drawbacks of maintenance rehearsal

Doesn't make information meaningful by connecting it to pass learning

The process of storing information by relating it to information you already know well is

Elaborative rehearsal

What processes do computers and people both use the handle information

Encoding storages retrieval

The meaning of specific information such as particular event or piece of general knowledge is called

Explicit memory

Why do people not store everything permanently

Limited by the amount of attention we pay to things

The third and final stage of information storage contains a huge reservoir of knowledge

Long term memory

Why do researchers use nonsense syllables to study memory and forgetting

Meaningless, using acoustic coating to remember

What are semantic memories and why what are places you need to use it

Memory of facts words concepts etc.

Describe Chunking

Organizing items into familiar or manageable units

What are reasons long-term memories are not always reliable

People sensor details remember what's convenient

Is the tendency to remember the last items in a series

Recency effect

The basic memory task that involves identifying objects or events previously encountered is

Recognition

What are the three basic memory task

Recognition recall relearning

The third basic memory task which comes into play when information has been forgotten is

Relearning

What type of memory loss and loss for getting the period leading up to a traumatic event

Retro grade amnesia

What are examples of semantic codes

Roy G. Biv EGBDF

The ways we perceive things in the ways are memories stored what we perceive can be influenced by, ____ the mental representations we form as we organize bits of information

Schemas

Describe the use of visual codes to memorize information

Seeing things as a picture or image

List the stages of information storage

Sensory, short-term, long-term

How many pieces of information can the average person hold in short-term memory

Seven items

Another name for working memory is

Short-term memory

What does Freud say causes repression

We forget things on purpose, caused by disturbing memories

List examples of episodic memories

What you ate for dinner last night

When are state dependent memories retrieved

When you are in the same mood as you were when memories were encoded

Understand how context dependent memory works

You return to where you initially experience the memory and it comes flooding nack


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