ch 6 memory

The ability to store and retrieve information over time.

Transforming perceived, thought, or felt information into a lasting memory.

Maintaining information in memory over time.

<p>Bringing to mind previously encoded and stored information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Memories are constructed by combining existing knowledge with new sensory information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organizational Encoding</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Semantic Judgement</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Relating new information to existing knowledge in a meaningful way.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Storing new information by creating mental pictures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Categorizing information based on relationships among items.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sensory memory holds information for a few seconds or less, while short-term memory holds information for a few seconds to a minute.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Echoic memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mentally repeating information to keep it in short-term memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list better than items in the middle.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Better recall of the first items in a list, due to more rehearsal and encoding into long-term memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Short-term memory can hold about 7 meaningful items at once.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By chunking, which combines small pieces of information into larger meaningful units.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The component of working memory used for visual images.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The component of working memory used for verbal information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Integrates visual and verbal information from the subsystems into a combined code.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The component that coordinates the subsystems and the episodic buffer, controlling the flow of information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Storage that holds information for hours, days, weeks, or years.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She discovered the role of the hippocampus in long-term memory formation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The inability to transfer new information from short-term to long-term memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which memories become stable in the brain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Synaptic connections between neurons strengthen with repeated activation, making communication easier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increased neurotransmitter release for short-term storage and growth of new synapses for long-term storage.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>External information associated with stored information that helps bring it to mind.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Retrieval clues are most effective when they recreate the specific way information was initially encoded.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency for information to be better recalled when the person is in the same state during encoding and retrieval.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Memory is more likely to transfer from one situation to another when the contexts of encoding and retrieval match.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Retrieval can strengthen a memory or change it through reconsolidation, potentially leading to false memories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person's account of an observed event, often used as legal evidence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Trying to recall activates the left frontal lobe, while successfully recalling activates sensory areas related to the experience and has decreased hippocampal activity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Explicit memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The gradual acquisition of skills through practice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An enhanced ability to think of a stimulus due to recent exposure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conceptual priming</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Semantic memory is a network of associated facts and concepts (general knowledge), while episodic memory is a collection of personal experiences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Recalling details of past experiences can improve our ability to imagine future scenarios.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Generating creative ideas by combining different types of information in new ways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A task where participants generate unusual uses for common objects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group where individuals recall information independently, then their contributions are combined.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Collaborative remembering seen in close relationships, where each member remembers different aspects of information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Transience (forgets less important details), Absentmindedness (focuses on important information), Blocking (avoids unnecessary detail overload), Misattribution (anticipates future events based on memories), Suggestibility (carefully records necessary details), Bias (maintains positive illusion about oneself), Persistence (remembers traumatic or threatening events for survival).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Forgetting information over time, particularly in sensory and short-term memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Retroactive interference</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Later learning impairs memory for information acquired earlier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The lack of memories from the early years of life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lapses in attention that lead to memory failures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Remembering to do things in the future.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Relying on external devices to remind us about tasks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assigning a recollection or idea to the wrong source.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Recall of when, where, and how information was acquired.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A feeling of familiarity with a situation, even though no details can be recalled.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Feeling familiar with something that has not been encountered before.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to incorporate misleading information from external sources into personal recollections.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The distorting influence of present knowledge, beliefs, and feelings on the recollection of past experiences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to reconstruct the past to fit the present.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to exaggerate differences between what we feel now and what we felt in the past.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency to exaggerate our own contributions or positive aspects of past events.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Detailed recollections of when and where we heard about shocking events.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The amygdala is involved in the release of stress hormones, enhancing memory for emotional experiences.</p> Signup and view all the answers