Psy 201

Front 1

The ability to store and retrieve information; also the storage of what has been learned or remembered.

Back 1

memory

Front 2

The process by which we transform what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory is called?

Back 2

Encoding

Front 3

You learn French in high school 10 years ago. You travel to Paris, and at the airport a customers officer asks you a question in French. You recall the correct answer from your study of the language and answer the officer. This is an example of which one of the functions of memory?

Back 3

Retrieval

Front 4

While cramming for a psychology exam, Burkin finds that if he thinks about the meaning of terms and tries to use them in examples, she learns them much better. What is the technique Burkin is using to improve his memory of the learning.

Back 4

Semantic judgments

Front 5

You are taking a psychology class. During lecture, you listen, take notes, and think about how the information is related to you. These are all examples of ______ information into memory. When you read the textbook and your notes and rehearse the information from class, you are working on ______. During a test, you must remember the information, which is called ______.

Storage, retrieval, encoding
Storage, encoding, retrieval
Encoding, storage, retrieval
Encoding, retrieval, storage

Back 5

Encoding, storage, retrieval

Front 6

Aleia is daydreaming in class when her instructor asks her a question. Aleia finds herself replaying in her “mind’s ear” the instructor’s last words, taking advantage of a process called:

Back 6

Echoic memory

Front 7

It is helpful that local phone numbers are only seven digits long because seven items is the capacity of:

Back 7

Short-term memory

Front 8

The process of keeping information in short-term memory by mentally repeating it is called:

Back 8

Rehearsal

Front 9

_____ is the experience of knowing something but not being able to identify it, which is a result of _____ .
A. Tip-of-the-tongue; absentmindedness.
B. False recognition; blocking.
C. Absentmindedness; false recognition.
D. Tip-of-the-tongue; blocking.

Back 9

D. Tip-of-the-tongue; blocking.

Front 10

Every time she studies, Connie listens to her MP3 player. She always listens to the same playlist of all of Lil’ Wayne’s songs. Connie believes in state-dependent learning and recall. What should she do at exam time?

Back 10

Listen to Lil weezys shiz

Front 11

The location in which information can be kept for hours to years is known as the ______ memory store.

Back 11

Long-term

Front 12

Robert, a successful businessman, was driving to work one day when he was in a terrible car accident. He now cannot remember any new pieces of information for more than a few seconds. However, he is able to remember everything before the accident perfectly clearly. Robert’s condition in an example of (think 50 first dates):

Back 12

Anterograde Amnesia!

Front 13

_____ memory is the type of memory that describes how tasks can be learned even if the person cannot explicitly remember when or where he learned the task.

Back 13

implicit

Front 14

After practicing how to tie her shoes for months with her mother, Sara can now easily tie her shoes by herself without purposely thinking about the steps. This capability is an example of:

Back 14

Procedural memory

Front 15

List the seven sins of memory.

Back 15

Transience
Absent-mindedness
Blocking
Misattribution
Consistency Bias
Persistence
Suggestibility

Front 16

Sara took four years of Spanish in high school and two years of Spanish in college. Nevertheless, only a year after she graduated from college she realizes that she remembers very little of the Spanish language, illustrating:

Back 16

Transience

Front 17

Give an example of the sin of commission known as suggestibility:

Back 17

i.e. telling someone that a car “smashed” into another car, even though they barely touched, leading them to think it was going faster than it was.

Front 18

Yo-Yo Ma, a world-famous musician, left his multimillion-dollar cello in the trunk of a taxi. What might have caused him to forget something so important to him?

Back 18

Absentmindedness

Front 19

Victoria’s parents suggest revisiting a vacation spot that they went to five years earlier. Victoria recalls vividly an unpleasant experience on that vacation; she immediately refuses to go this time and insists on going somewhere else. What type of memory does she use to arrive at her strong opposition to his parent’s proposition?

Back 19

Episodic

Front 20

After watching a program about the Revolutionary War, participants were more likely to remember that Benjamin Franklin proved that lightening was electricity- even though this was not discussed in the program- due to:

Back 20

Priming

Front 21

What is a mnemonic device?

Back 21

A method devised to help remember information, such as a rhyme or acronym

Front 22

The distorting influence of present knowledge, beliefs, and feelings on the recall of previous experiences is called: ______

Back 22

Biases

Front 23

______ are mental frameworks formed from our experiences with the world that help us interpret, store, and remember related experiences, concepts, and behaviors.

Back 23

Schemas

Front 24

True or False: Episodic memory allows us to engage in mental time travel.

Back 24

True