Psy chap 6

Which of the following are true in regard to memories of traumatic events?

- They may be subject to deterioration and distortion -Stress related hormones play a role in memories that involve personal trauma -they may be more accurate than memories of nontraumatic events

Which of the following are levels of autobiographical memory?

-General events -Life time periods -Event-specific knowledge

Which of the following statements applies to the concept of working memory?

-It is an alternate conceptualization of the concept of short term memory -it is a mental blackboard -it consists of three parts

Which of the following statements are true regarding eye witness testimony?

-Memory can fade -Bias may be involved -Memory can be distorted by new information

Which of the following circumstances illustrate motivated forgetting?

-Someone forgets an event that is a consequence of an emotional trauma -A person forgets something that is anxiety-laden and painful

According to Paivio's dual code hypothesis:

-The image code produces better memory -Memory for pictures is better than memory for words

The term amnesia refers to a loss of memory. This disorder can:

-affect memories differentially -be anterograde or retrograde -can affect the retention of new memories

The frontal lobes of the brain play an important role in:

-prospective memory -explicit memory -retrospective memory

Which of the following strategies can be used to increase the number of pieces of information that can be held in short-term memory?

Chunk the information

Explicit memory is the ___________ recollection of information such as facts and events.

Conscious

The memory process involves three things:

Encoding, storage, and retrieval

The Atkinson-Shiffrin theory of memory proposed that there are ______ systems in memory

Three

The general term ________ refers to the loss of memory.

amnesia

A special form of episodic memory, is ___________________ memory, which includes individual' recollections of their life experiences, which generally include some memory and some myth.

autobiographical

People who are allowed to give their full attention to information that they must remember do _____________ than people who must divide their attention.

better

The initial recording of information into memory is called

encoding

the process by which information gets into memory storage is

encoding

In forensic psychology, most of the interest in _______ _________ focuses on distortion, bias, and inaccuracy of memory.

eyewitness

When Don was an undergraduate many years ago, his physics professor shot a flaming arrow across the lecture hall to illustrate a physics theory. Because Don vividly remembers the theory today, this is an example of:

imagery

short-term memory

is a limited- capacity memory system in which information is usually retained for less than a minute unless strategies are used to retain it longer

A relatively permanent type of memory that stores huge amounts of information is __________ memory.

long-term

When considering the effect of serial position, the ________ effect refers to better recall for items at the beginning.

primacy

The type of memory that involves remembering information about doing something in the future is __________ memory.

prospective

Memory _________ is a process that occurs when information that was retained in memory comes out of storage, that is when we recall or otherwise remember something.

retrieval

A _____________ is a general mental framework that helps people to organize and understand information.

schema

Information must be encoded and ________ in order to be retrieved later.

stored

The process of retaining information over time is referred to as ___________.

storing

Interference occurs when:

the instructor keeps talking as you are trying to write down what she just said

Memory is defined as

the retention of information of experience over time.

In 1890, American philosopher and psychologist William James said that an experience can be so emotionally arousing that it leaves a scar on brain tissue. He was referring to _____________ events.

traumatic