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Module 22-23 Review
Psychology 120
Terms:
mnemonic devices
automatic processing
encoding
semantic encoding
method of loci
distributed rehearsal
permastore memory
rehearsal
recency effect
Elizabeth Loftus
recognition
visual encoding
overlearning
accurate
chunking
recall x 2
hierarchy
explicit memory
retroactive interference
serial position effect
forgotten
storage
effortful processing
acoustic encoding
mass rehearsal
context effect
misinformation effect
flashbulb memory
short-term memory
primacy effect
proactive interference
long-term potentiation
retrieval
motivated forgetting
sensory memory
implicit memory
self-reference effect
long-term memory
peg-word system
state-dependent memory
1. _________________________is getting information into the memory system.
2. _________________________is retaining information in memory over time.
3. _________________________is getting information out of the memory stage.
4. __________________________________is the unconscious process of encoding certain
information without effort.
5. ______________________________is encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.
6. The conscious repetition of information is__________________________.
7. When you continue to rehearse information even after you have memorized it, it is
called______________________________.
8. When rehearsal sessions are spread out. _____________________________________
9. This spread out rehearsal works better than cramming information in fewer but longer sessions.
_______________________________
10. The tendency to recall the first and last items on a list is called_____________________.
11. The __________________________enhances our ability to recall items near the beginning of
the list.
12. The __________________________enhances our ability to recall items near the end of the list.
13. When you make material meaningful to help remember it, this process is called
_______________________________.
14. When we encode sounds. ______________________________
15. When we encode images. _______________________________
16. When you relate the material you are trying to remember to your own life, it is called
_______________________________________.
17. A formal term for memory tricks is _____________________________.
18. When you associate terms you want to remember with imaginary places it is referred to as
________________________________.
19. When you associate words you want to remember with a list of peg words.
______________________________
20. Organizing information into meaningful units is called ______________________.
21. A ___________________________is an organizational system that focuses on relationships
between pieces of information (i.e. outline)
22. _____________________________is the brief, initial encoding of sensory information in the
memory system.
23. A memory that is slightly more permanent than sensory memory is __________________.
24. A relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of our memory system is
__________________________________.
25. A _______________________________is a vivid memory of an emotionally significant moment
or event.
26. Increase In a synapse firing efficiency that occurs when a sequence of neurons that represent a
particular memory fires repeatedly. ________________________
27. __________________________is what we normally think of when we think of memory recall of
facts and experiences.
28. _______________________________is the recall of skills and procedures.
29. When we search for information that was previously stored. _____________________
30. _____________________is the type of retrieval in which you must identify items you previously
learned.
31. When you are in an environment similar to the one in which you encoded the information, you
may have a better ability to retrieve that information. _____________________________
32. _____________________________is the enhanced ability to retrieve information when you are
in the same physical and emotional state as you were when you encoded it.
33. When information is no longer or has never been encoded, it means you have
____________________ the information.
34. Long-term memories that are especially resistant to forgetting are _____________________.
35. When an older memory disrupts the recall of a newer memory, you experience
_______________________________.
36. When a more recent memory disrupts the recall of an older memory, you experience
________________________________.
37. Forgetting, to provide protection from anxiety or from potentially distressing information, is
_____________________________.
38. ____________________________was the first person to show how we have a tendency to
construct memories.
39. Incorporating misleading information into a memory is
__________________________________.
40. Children’s memory grow more ______________________with age.