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PY 101 Exam 3 Question and answers correctly solved PY 101 Exam 3 memory - correct answer - the ability to store and retrieve information we have learned sensory memory - correct answer - holds small amounts of information for a few seconds short-term memory - correct answer - aka...

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PY 101 Exam 3
memory - correct answer ✔- the ability to store and retrieve information we
have learned


sensory memory - correct answer ✔- holds small amounts of information for
a few seconds


short-term memory - correct answer ✔- aka working memory
- limited capacity and duration of 15-20 seconds
- requires active maintenance rehearsal to prevent forgetting


long-term memory - correct answer ✔- unlimited capacity
- can last minutes to decades


chunking - correct answer ✔- strategy to reduce total number of items to
remember by combining them into groups (chunks)


maintenance rehearsal - correct answer ✔- repeating information to keep the
information in a person's short-term memory


primacy effect - correct answer ✔- remembering/recalling items at the
beginning of the list


recency effect - correct answer ✔- remembering/recalling items at the end of
a list.


working memory - correct answer ✔- part of short-term memory

, - must actively rehearse information to retain it


spreading activation - correct answer ✔- recalling one word will likely recall
other words


state-dependent memory - correct answer ✔- information is better recalled
when the person is in the same bodily state as when they learned it


context-dependent memory - correct answer ✔- information is better recalled
when the person is in the same environment as when they learned it


retrograde amnesia - correct answer ✔- loss of memory for events before
and brain injury


anterograde amnesia - correct answer ✔- loss of ability to create new
memories after a brain injury


proactive interference - correct answer ✔- when an existing memory
interferes with forming a new memory


retroactive interference - correct answer ✔- when forming a new memory
interferes with retrieving an old memory


episodic memory - correct answer ✔- detailed declarative memory for an
autobiographical event at a particular date and time
- ex: first kiss, first day of school, friends birthday party


semantic memory - correct answer ✔- general declarative memory or fact
- ex: state capitals, math equations

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