PERIOD 1: Unit 5 Memory Final Review

What is Memory?

• The process of putting information into the memory system.

• Learning that has persisted over time, information that has been stored and can be retrieved.

• The information we are currently aware of or thinking about.

• Trying to hold in mind too much information.

Information you consciously work to remember and know how you learned it________________.

• Explicit Memory

• Implicit Memory

• Long term Memory

• Long term Potentiation

Which of the following is the best description of Encoding?

• Being able to identify information after experiencing it again

• Learning information

• Grouping individual pieces of information into larger units

• Unconsciously remembering information

What is Deep Processing?

• a. Encoding on a basic level based on the structure of appearance.

• b. Repetition of information to memorize it in short-term memory

• c. Attaching meaning/creating associations to information.

• d. Encoding the meaning of a word and relating it to similar words/meaning.

The theory that states that if a person does not access and use the memory representation they have formed, the memory trace will fade or decay, is known as __________.

• Trace Decay

• Tip of the Tongue

• Amnesia

• Anterograde Amnesia

True or False: The term that states that some memories interfere with the retrieval of other memories is coined as encoding failure.

• True

• Flase

Echoic memory can hold information for 7 seconds.

• True

• False

The system in your brain that allows you to temporarily retain and manipulate stored information involving a complex process is coined as __________.

Baddeley’s Working Memory/ Echoic Memory/Alejandro's Working Memory

Which of these does NOT refer the the psychological processes of memory

• A)Acquiring

• B)Storing

• C)Retaining

• D)Avoiding

What are the three different memory systems characterized by frames?