Sherrill General Psychology Chapter 6 Flash Cards
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .1
What is the 3 step process included in
the definition of memory?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .2
Perception and translation of a particular
stimulus so that the information can be more
easily stored is the definition of what term?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .3
The efficiency of the storage process is
greatly influenced by the _____ we put into
encoding or organizing new memories.
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .4
_______ is defined as our ability to access information that was properly encoded and
stored in memory.
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QUESTION .5
Information in our sensory memory
disappears within a few second if we do
not ______ (2 answers)
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .6
The short-lived memory for visual
information is called?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .7
The short-lived memory for auditory information is called
what?
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QUESTION .8
You are able to respond to something that you thought you
did not hear, but actually did hear, because of what?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .9
Short term memory is also known as
what?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .10
The process of grouping items into shorter meaningful units to make them
easier to remember is called?
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QUESTION .11
This is the type of long term memory for how to perform certain activities.
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QUESTION .12
This is the type of long term memory
that is also known as photographic memory.
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QUESTION .13
This is the type of long term memory
needed to successfully do well on exams in college.
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .14
Your personal or autobiographical
memories for events you experience in life is called what?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .15
__________ devices organize information in meaningful ways
and make it easier to remember at a later
time.
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .16
The meaningful arrangement of letters that assist in memory
retrieval is called?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .17
You witness a hit and run and repeat the license
plate over and over again in your head in an attempt to remember it.
What are you using?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .18
Purposely trying to connect new information with information already
stored in LTM is called what?
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QUESTION .19Don cannot remember his class schedule from last semester because
he has focused so much on his current
schedule. This is an example of:
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .20
This occurs when old information, already
in LTM, interferes with one’s ability to recall
newly acquired information.
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .21
It is the end of January and I still keep putting last year when writing
the date. This is an example of which type
of interference?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .22
This occurs when newly acquired
information interferes with the recall of older memories.
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .23
You are only able to remember the names of the last few people who you were introduced to at your new job. This is
known as?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .24
You can only remember the first few items on the
grocery list that you have lost. This is an
example of?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .25
The loss of memory due to altered
physiology (damage or illness) of the brain is called?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .26
Maria cannot remember anything
that happened before she fell of the cliff.
She would have what type of amnesia?
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QUESTION .27
Ever since his car accident, Paul has
been unable to form any new memories.
This would be an example of what?
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .28
_______ states that it is easier to recall information when you are in the same physiological or emotional state or setting as when
you originally encoded the information.
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .29
Vivid recollections, usually in great detail,
of dramatic or emotionally charged incidents that are of
interest to the person.
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .30
This term refers to groups of neurons whose structures have been altered
by learning.
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
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Chapter 6: Memory (Flash Cards)
QUESTION .31
An increase in a neuron’s SENSITIVITY to
fire (stimulation) following a burst of
signals to that neuron’s dendrites is called what?
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