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what is chunking
what is encoding
Memory (Maas psych exam)
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what is encoding
balnce and cordintion
LTM
the process of information into the memory system
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what is chunking
thinking about how new information relates to information already stored
grouping items together in a meaningful way
events that are casually related/similar are embedded into a common cluster
important in encoding new information
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What is the Cocktail Party effect?
step by step problem sovling formula
eliminating all possible solutions until you find the correct one
hearing your name across a crowded room
getting out a memory so you can use it to tell a story
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Type of memory that holds facts and/or events?
Procedural
Stroop
Semantic
Implicit
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What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin model?
What procedural memories are
Information-processing model of how we ecode, store, and retrieve info
The way we forget memories over time
Semantic and episodic memories
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the prefront cortex is assoicated with
goals/planning
survial instincts
problem solving, and logic
emotion
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what is memory?
processing of information in to the memory system
more of less permanant storage, capacity is unlimited
what you do to learn something
ability to remeber things we've experienced
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what is the tip of the tongue phenomenon
remebering events while in a particular state of consciousness
memory aid that helps you remeber or retain infor
web of interconnected memories
temporary inability to remeber something
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the hippocampus is assoicated with the LTM
True
False
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where is the prefrontal cortex
very front of the brain
right side of the brain
left side of the brain
back of the brain
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what is assoicated with the cerebellum
emotions, and survial instincts
goals and planning
problem solving and logic
blance and cordinaion
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what are the types of long term memory?
hippocampus, anterograde and retrograde amnesia
iconic memory, echoic memory, working memory and cocktail party effect
rote rehearsal, elaborating rehearsal and chunking
episodic, semantic and procedural memory
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Which scientist removed rat brains for a memory experiment?
Lashley
Catell
Freud
Watson
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What are emotional memories that are remembered vividly?
Elaborative memories
Eidetic images
Implicit memoires
Flashbulb memories
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Eidetic memory is just having a good memory
True
False
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I can only remember the first 2 items on my list! What is going on?
Absent-Mindedness
Primacy Effect
To-Do List
Recency Effect
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Which of the following uses milestones as reference points in memory?
Temporal Landmarks Theory
Forgetting
Retrieval
Event Clusters Theory
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what is the amygdla involed with
emotions and knowledge
emotions, and surival instincts
problem solving
goals
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Retrograde Amnesia is a condition where a person can not remember their new memories
False
True
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What is an example of mnemonic devices
distortions produced by current knowlodge or beliefs
A,B,C's, PEMDAS, DVD
the temporaryinability to remeber something/information
decreassing accessibilty of memory over time
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What do neurotransmitters do for the brain?
back of the brain, associated with balence & cordination
strong emotions trigger the formation of strong memories
lapes of attention & forgetting to do things
the way words are organized into sentances
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Applying misinformation to memories because of leading questions is what?
Misattribution
Transience
Suggestability
Mnemonic Devices
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When you forget, your memory is gone forever.
True
False
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What is Recall?
the split second holding tank for memories
retreaving a nemory with an external clue
the process of information into the memory system
learning new information that messes with old information already learned
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what are the types of sensory memory
hippocampus, anterograde and retrograde amnesia
rote rehearsal, elaborating rehearsal and chunking
iconic memory, echoic memory, cocktail party effect and working memory
episodic, semantic and procedural memory
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what is a flashbulb memory
detailed description of what one was doing at a time, clear moment of event
split second perfect photo of scene(s)
a perfect brief memory of sound
split second holding tank for incoming sensory information
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What is a multiple choice test an example of?
Recall
Recency Effect
Serial Position Effect
Recognition
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Short term memory is where your brain stores all important information for long term periods
True
False
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What are episodic memories?
Memories of specific events stored sequentially
Emotional memories that are vivid
Specific reference points in ones life
General knowledge of the world stored as facts
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Which of the following causes childhood amnesia?
Injury to the amygdala
Injury to the hippocampus
Forgetting due to time
Children lacking language skills to reinforce memories
