Psych Chapter 7
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
