Unit 5 Cognition - Memory Part 2

What can be learned from Hermann Ebbinghaus's research on memory? 

• Forgetting learned information is initially pretty rapid, then levels off with time but forgetting can be combated with periodic intervals of relearning/practicing.

   

• We have the tendency to better remember items at the beginning and ends of a list and forget the items in the middle.

Which set of terms are paired with the correct definitions? 

• 1. Spacing Effect: the tendency to better remember items at the beginning and ends of a list and forget the items in the middle

  Testing Effect: the phenomenon of higher retention through repeated self-testing of the material - practicing retrieval rather than rehearsal

  Serial Position Effect: the phenomenon of higher retention through spreading out study periods over a timespan rather than cramming it all in during one session

• 2. Spacing Effect: the phenomenon of higher retention through spreading out study periods over a timespan rather than cramming it all in during one session

  Testing Effect: the phenomenon of higher retention through repeated self-testing of the material - practicing retrieval rather than rehearsal

  Serial Position Effect: the tendency to better remember items at the beginning and ends of a list and forget the items in the middle

__________ is when old memories interfere with your ability to recall new memories

• Proactive Interference

• Retroactive Interference

________ refers to the inability to make new memories. 

• Retrograde Amnesia

• Anterograde Amnesia

Which statement best explains the misinformation effect? 

• When someone unintentionally incorporates inaccurate information into a memory of an event when presented with misleading information

• When someone attributes the wrong source to an event they experienced, heard about, or read about