Crash Course Psychology #14

What type of memory is responsible for our personal experiences and general knowledge?

• Sensory memory

• Explicit memory

• Implicit memory

• Short-term memory

What is the term for the process of activating associations non-consciously to jog our memory?

• Priming

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Interference

What is the term for recall that is influenced by our location and surroundings?

• State-dependent memory

• Mood-congruent memory

• Context-dependent memory

• Serial position effect

What is the term for the phenomenon where we are more likely to recall the first and last items in a list?

• Primacy effect

• Recency effect

• Proactive interference

• Retroactive interference

What is the term for the natural forgetting of memories over time?

• Interference

• Retrieval failure

• Storage decay

• Encoding failure

What is the term for the phenomenon where new learning interferes with recalling old information?

• Source misattribution

• Misinformation effect

• Retroactive interference

• Proactive interference

Who is the psychologist known for showing how eyewitnesses can inadvertently tweak and reconstruct their memories?

• Michael Aranda

• Nicholas Jenkins

• Ranjit Bhagwat

• Elizabeth Loftus

What is the term for the effect where misleading information can alter our memories?

• Source misattribution

• Misinformation effect

• Recency effect

• Primacy effect

What is the term for the phenomenon where we forget or misrecall the source of a memory?

• Recency effect

• Primacy effect

• Source misattribution

• Misinformation effect

What is the term for the process of reconstructing and inferring involved when trying to recall a memory?

• Encoding

• Storage decay

• Reconstruction

• Retrieval