Memory 3

Emotions can trigger a rise in stress ________.

What part of the brain do stress hormones trigger?

• amygdala

• hippocampus

• cerebellum

• frontal lobe

With repetition, the synapses undergo long-term ____________; signals are sent across the synapse more efficiently.

Which of these fall under automatic processing?

• implicit memories, cerebellum and basal ganglia, space, time,and frequency, motor and cognitive skills, classical conditioning

• explicit memories, hippocampus and frontal lobes, facts & general knowledge, personally experienced events

Which of these fall under effortful processing?

• implicit memories, cerebellum and basal ganglia, space, time,and frequency, motor and cognitive skills, classical conditioning

• explicit memories, hippocampus and frontal lobes, facts & general knowledge, personally experienced events

_______ triggers a thread of associations that bring us to a concept

We retrieve a memory more easily when in the same _______ as when we formed the memory.

_____________________ memory refers to the tendency to selectively recall details that are consistent with one’s current mood.

• mood-congruent

• mood-adjacent

• moody

• mood devoid

Match the following

• recalling first items learned

• serial position effect

• tendency to more likely recall the first items and last items

• primacy effect

• recalling the last items learned

• recency effect