Unit 4 Cognition: Thinking & Memory

A friend is obsessed with a movie and talks about it all the time. One day, a teacher asks if you have seen that movie and you say yes, even though you haven't. What psych term can account for this memory mistake?

• Flashbulb Memory

• Overconfidence

• Framing Effect

• Source Amnesia

Even though James looks at his phone several times a day, you can't remember whether the calendar is on the left or right side. This is an example

• misinformation effect

• encoding failure

• storage failure

• retrieval failure

Trying to remember a series of numbers for a short amount of time by repeating them over and over again is using

• visual spatial sketchpad

• maintenance rehearsal

• elaborative rehearsal

• implicit memory

A student can remember better if they study a little each day, as opposed to cramming. This type of studying is known as the

• mass practice

• serial position effect

• distributed practice

• method of loci

The national news is covering an outbreak of E coli in lettuce. When you go to Panera and are trying to decide what to have, the news story pops into your mind and you choose a sandwich over the salad. This occurred because of the

• availability heuristic

• representativeness heuristic

• functional fixedness

• framing effect

What psych terms describes memory loss of not being able to create new memories and not remembering old memories, respectively?

• anterograde amnesia & retrograde amnesia

• source amnesia & retrograde amnesia

• retrograde amnesia & anterograde amnesia

• proactive and retroactive interference

Remember the beginning of a list and the end of a list, but forgetting the middle part of the list is called

• iconic memory

• serial position effect

• the relearning effect

• implicit memory

In order to remember a list of words, Jenny practices spelling each word, whereas Paula makes a story out of the words. Paula's method, which results in better memory, illustrates the concept of

• chunking

• deep processing

• retrieval failure

• shallow processing

A depressed person typically recalls sad memories due to

• context-dependent memory

• state-dependent memory

• mood-congruent memory

• retroactive interference

Getting information into memory is known as

• encoding

• storage

• retrieval

• relearning