Psych Chapter Nine – Flashcards
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Josh vividly recalls his feelings and what he was doing at the exact moment when he heard of his grandfather unexpected death. This illustrates
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flashbulb memory
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Your consciously activated but limited capacity memory is called
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short-term
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a flashbulb memory would typically be stored in
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long-term memory
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by incorporating errors originating from a hypnotists leading questions, hypnotically refreshed memories often illustrate
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the misinformation effect
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the conscious auditory rehearsal that facilitates long term memory storage requires
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working memory
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during her psychology test, Kelsey could not remember the meaning of the term "proactive interference". Surprisingly, however, she accurately remembered that the term, appeared on the fourth line of a left hand page in her textbook. her memory of this incidental information is best explained in terms of
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automatic processing
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Ebbinghaus use of nonsense syllables to study memory led to the discovery taht
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the amount remembered depends on the time spent learning
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jamille performs better on foreign language vocabulary tests if she studies the material 15 minutes every day for eight days than if she crams for two hours the night before the test. this illustrates what is known as
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the spacing effect
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the address for obtaining tickets to a popular quiz show flashes on the tv screen, but image disappears before disappears has had a chance tow rite down the complete address. To his surprise however he has retained a momentary mental image of the five digit zip code. His experience best illustrates
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iconic
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after hamsters learned whether to turn right or left in a maze in order to find food, their body temperature was lowered until the electrical activity in their brains ceased. When the hamsters were revived, they still remembered that they ad learned prior to the "blackout". The hamster's directional memory was apparently an
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longterm
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the rear area of the growing biggest the longer a London cab driver has been navigating the city streets
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hippocampus
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when eighty old Ida looked at their old wedding pictures, she was flooded with vivid memories of her parents, her husband and the early years of her marriage. The pictures served as powerful
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retrieval cues
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hearing the world "rabbit" may lead people to spell the spoken word "hair" as "h-a-r-e" the best illustrates the outcome of a process known as
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priming
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A person who has trouble forgetting information, such as the Russian memory whiz S, often seems to have a limited capacity for
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abstract thinking
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The inability to recall which numbers on a telephone dial are not accompanied by letters is most likely due to
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encoding failure
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their inability to remember how Lincoln's head appears on a penny is most likely due to a failure in
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econding
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the disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information is called
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proactive interference
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compulsive gamblers frequently recall losing less money than is actually the case. Their memory failure best illustrates
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motivated forgetting
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a type of motivated forgetting in which anxiety arousing memories are blocked from conscious awareness is known as
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repression
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the psychologist jean piaget constructed a vivid detailed memory of being kidnapped after hearing his nursemaid's false reports of such an vent. His experience best illustrates
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source amnesia
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after attending group therapy sessions for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, Karen mistakenly details from others traumatic life stories as part of her own life history. This best illustrates the dangers of
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source amnesia
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research on young children's false eyewitness recollections has indicated that
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it is difficult for both children and professional interviewers to reliably separate that children true memories from false memories
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when memory researcher elizabeth loftus was an adolescent her uncle incorrectly insisted that as a child she had found her own mother's downed body. Loftus herself later falsely recollected finding the body. Illustrates
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the misinformation effect
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speed reading complex material yields little long-term retention because it inhbits
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rehearsal
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you should study before sleeping in order to minimize
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retroactive interference
