Memory Psychology Study Test Questions and Answers All Correct
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Memory Psychology Study Test Questions and Answers All Correct
What is memory reconstruction influenced by? - Answer- 1. current mood
2. emotional states
3. environmental cues
4. beliefs
5. knowledge
George Sperling - Answer- Psychologist associated with early research into the capacity o...
Memory Psychology Study
Test Questions and
Answers All Correct
What is memory reconstruction influenced by? - Answer- 1. current mood
2. emotional states
3. environmental cues
4. beliefs
5. knowledge
George Sperling - Answer- Psychologist associated with early research into the capacity
of sensory memory.
Sperling Test - Answer- About studying visual retention. Participants were briefly shown
a grid of letters (usually 3 rows of 4 letters) for a fraction of a second, then the letters
are obscured. Participants are then asked to recall as many letters as they can.
sensory memory has a huge _______ and a small _________ - Answer- capacity,
duration
Failure to retrieve/tip of the tongue phenomenon - Answer- information is in your mind,
you can't retrieve it
What are we testing for when we give tests? - Answer- Retrieval
What is retrieval - Answer- getting things out of long term memory
Iconic Memory - Answer- visual sensory memory, fast decay (after a second)
Organizational Encoding - Answer- when you organize by category (memory increases)
More likely to memorize things when your notes are - Answer- organized
Keep your study spaces - Answer- organized and clean
Serial Position Curve - Answer- graph depicting both primacy and recency effects on
people's ability to recall items on a list- less rehearsal in middle so less retention
, What do we take for granted? - Answer- Memory
What is the book about memory? - Answer- Your Memory by Kenneth L. Higbee
What are the three myths of memory? - Answer- 1. A thing (Not a tangible thing)
2. A thing (Not a single thing)
3. People have a good or bad memory
self-fullfilling prophecy - Answer- whether you think you can or not, you are right
What has nothing to do with memory? - Answer- IQ
What did Dr. Higbee say about memory? - Answer- Trained or Untrained memory
Why can people not remember? - Answer- Laziness
What are the 3 major components of memory? - Answer- Encoding, storage, retrieval
What is the most important componet? - Answer- Encoding
What is the worst way to study? - Answer- Rereading notes, too passive
Familiarity does not equal - Answer- understanding
What was the point of the cardboard box analogy - Answer- encoding
encoding - Answer- the processing of information so that it can be stored
storage - Answer- the retention of encoded information over time
Retrieval - Answer- the process of getting information out of memory storage
when memory is retrieved - Answer- it is reconstructed or rebuilt
Is photographic memory a thing? - Answer- No
Primacy - Answer- You can remember things better at the beginning of the list
Recency - Answer- You can remember things better at the end of the list.
Echoic Memory - Answer- auditory memory, fast decaying (5 seconds)
More senses used helps with - Answer- memory
There are no learning styles - Answer- just learning preferences
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