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Psychology 20 Memory Unit
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- 1What are the three parts of information processing?Input
Central Processing
Output - 2What is input?All the information sent to the brain from our five senses
- 3What is central processing?The brain organizing, interpretting, storing, and percieving the information
- 4What is output?The brain sends the action or inaction to the body
- 5What is selective attentionThe ability to pick and choose input
- 6What are the two theories about selective attention?Selection Theory
Attention Theory - 7What is the selection theory?The theory that the brain can only attend to one thing at a time
- 8What is the attention theory?The theory that the brain can attend to only one thing but is aware of other input; some information is still processed
- 9What is feature extraction?When the brain is looking for one thing and can't see what it isn't looking for
(Where's Waldo) - 10What are the three kinds of memory?Sensory
Short-Term
Long-Term - 11What is sensory memory?The memory is held for at most a second, it then fades rapidly
- 12What is short-term memory?Memories are kept only if you are thinking about them and/or repeating them
- 13What is long-term memory?When the memory or information is stored for future use
- 14What are the different kinds of long-term memory?Semantic
Episodic
Explicit
Implicit
Eidetic - 15What is semantic memory?Knowledge of language
- 16What is episodic memory?The memory of your own life/daily occurences
- 17What is explicit memory?Information called for conciously from your memory, it is semantic and episodic combined
- 18What is implicit memory?Memory that unconciously called upon; usually skills; are easier to show then to explain
- 19What is eidetic memory?Commonly called photographic memory there are didderent levels to what you remember
- 20How do you retrieve information better?by organizing your thoughts; store them in more then one place
- 21Wat is recognition?Not real remembering something, you just recognize when shown to and what it isn't
(multiple choice questions) - 22What is recall?The active reconstruction of information
- 23What are the three things that affect someones ability to recall?Knowledge
Attitude
Expectations - 24How does knowledge affect recall?If you increase the knowledge you increase the memory, because then you can create more connections
- 25How does attitude affect recall?Your attitude on a subject will determine wether you will recall it
If your attitude is that you hate it, you won't be able to recall as well as if your attitude was that you liked it - 26How does expectaion affect recall?If more is expected of you then you will be able to recall better
- 27What is confabulation?Remembering things that were never stored in your memory, we fill in the blanks
- 28What is forgetting?When information that used to be stored in long-term memory can no longer be retrieved; memory decays
- 29What is interference?A memory that has been blocked by previous or subsequent memories
- 30What are the two kinds of interference?Proactive
Retroactive - 31What is proactive interference?When an old memory blocks a new memory
- 32What is retroactive interference?When a new memory blocks and old memory
- 33What is association?Associationg an object with another related object
- 34How can you increase your memory by organizing your thoughts?Putting the information in more then one place
- 35What is chunking?Remembering something in bits
(19 letters) - 36How can increasing the meaning of something help you remember it?When you make something more meaningful it helps you remember it because it is deemed more important
- 37How does the degree of originality of something help you remember it?The more original something is the more you will be able to remember it because it stands out
- 38What are mnemonic devices?Techniques used to make associations when memorizing information
(FACE) - 39What is the method of loci?A trick used to help store and retrieve memories
A visual mental image to associate with the material that needs to be momorized
The more vivid the visual the better
Image has to be unrelated to what you are memorizing
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