Memory PSYC 101

The term for getting information into your brain.

• Recall

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Encoding

The term for retaining information in your brain.

• Recall

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Encoding

David used the ------------------- device “Never Eat Slimy Worms” to remember the four directions on the compass: north, east, south, and west.

• source device

• loci device

• mnemonic device

• cognitive device

The last process after encoding and storing a memory is

• retrieval.

• forgetting.

• rehearsal.

• relearn.

What is memory?

• storage and retrieval of info

• grouping of items

• info we are paying attention to

• I forgot...

Group items to make them easier to remember

• primacy-recency effect

• chunking

• maintenance rehearsal

• mnemonic device

Memory decay is fastest for which type of memory?

• Sensory Memory
• Short Term Memory
• Working Memory
• Long Term Memory

If you watch a sequel to movie, and have trouble remembering if a character was in the first movie, you are experiencing...

• Repressive Memories
• Proactive Interference
• Retroactive Interference
• Memory Decay

Using the Atkinson Shriffin memory model, which process forms a LTM from STM

• selective attention
• recalling
• storage
• encoding

Hearing Lincoln Park's "Numb" and then listening to their song "What I've Done" and now confusing the lyrics to "Numb" is an error in memory caused by ___.

• Encoding

• Proactive Interference

• Retroactive Interference

• Source Amnesia