Unit 2.1 Memory

Can you remember your 1st grade teacher's name? If you can, you are conquering:

Hottie gave you their phone number! Repeat it over & over again, temporarily storing it in:

Where are memories stored?

A cause of forgetting that occurs when information was never put into LTM

Bob can't store new memories. He has _______ amnesia

Bob can't remember old memories. He know everything after the accident. He has _____ amnesia

Repeating some bit of info over and over in one's head in order to maintain it in STM is:

How to ride a bike:

auditory sensory memory that lasts under 4 seconds

Memory is seen as a simultaneous process with creation and storage happening at the same time:

when we encode only the physical qualities of something (font of a word/how the letters look)

What is the capacity of LTM?

visual sensory memory that lasts under half a second

________ model states that processing memories as deep level is better than the shallow level.

Retention of memory for some time is called:

When you remember items at the end of the list...

Loftus' work with false memories, specifically the shopping mall experiment, confirms the:

What is another name some people use for working memory?

_________ tests are usually more difficult because u have to come up with the answer on ur own

when we encode the meaning of a word and relate it to similar words with similar meaning

the older a memory, the more likely it is to...

Memory that is very brief and only lasts a second:

U can't remember the def of a word on a test because you didn't pay attention in class

How to read:

I can remember every detail of where I was when I heard about 9/11. This is a _______ memory

What is the capacity for STM?

You take a test and can't remember an answer. It is right there, you studied it!

___________ is grouping items into meaningful units so that things stay in STM.

forgetting LTM is probably because of:

Uh oh, damage to the hippocampus! Bob won't be able to store _________ memories:

Fiona can't remember anything before 3 years old. She had:

A kid with eidetic imagery can easily memorize a __________.

Sarah hit her head and no long gets sad when she watches Titanic. What might be broken?

The theory that you remember the beginning and end of a list more than the middle

I remember the events of my 6th birthday party:

When you remember things at the beginning of a list

____________ tests are easier because the answer is somewhere on the page