General Psychology (PY21051) – Chapter 6 Discussion Questions – Flashcards
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Memories of the events that happen to a person are ________________ memories.
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episodic
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_______________ memories concern generalized knowledge.
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semantic
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One way of storing information is by ________________ rehearsal, or by mentally repeating it.
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maintenance
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Another way of storing information is by __________________ rehearsal, when we relate new information to things we already know.
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elaborative
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The Atkinson-Shiffrin model hypothesizes three stages of memory: __________________, _________________-________________, and ___________________-________________.
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- sensory - short-term - long-term
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_________________ imagery is the ability to retain exact mental representations of visual stimuli over long periods of time.
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eidetic
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Detailed memories of surprising, important, and emotional events are termed _____________ memories.
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flashbulb
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In ______________ interference, new learning interferences with the capacity to retrieve more recently learned material.
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retroactive
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In _______________ interference, older learning interfers with the capacity to retrieve more recently learned material.
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proactive
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Experience enhances the avenues of communication among brain cells by development of dendrites and _______________.
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synapses
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Remembering what you had for dinner is an example of ___________ memory.
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episodic
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Hamilton told himself to remember to get three things at the corner deli. On the way to the store, he ran into Jason and chatted for a few minutes. Afterward, he could only remember two of the items. Chatting with Jason had apparently interfered with Hamilton's?
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prospective memory
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You recall what you ate for breakfast this morning, but you know who wrote Hamlet is an example of...
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semantic memory
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Breaking THUNSTOFAM into three syllables THUN-STO-FAM and then repeating them many times in an effort to remember the ten letters is an example of using the techniques of:
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chunking and maintenance rehearsal
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A moment after she picked up her racket, she realized with surprise that she had shifted it to the correct forehand grip without even thinking. Tracy's ____________ memory made this possible.
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implicit
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If you learn how to do something once, and then forget it, what is most likely to happen if you attempt to relearn it?
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you will relearn it more quickly than you originally learned it
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The process of modifying information so that we can place it in memory is called...
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encoding
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Mentally repeating a list or saying it to yourself refers to...
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maintenance rehearsal
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Evan met Lesley at a party three weeks ago. He bumps into her on the way to class. He feels as though he knows her name but he just can't retrieve the info. This experience is referred to as...
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tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
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From the clinical evidence on brain injury, it appears that storage bins for long-term memories are located in...
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different brain areas
