PSY 352 Learning and Memory Exam 3 Questions With Complete Solutions!!

Processing different information, retrieving information, and storing information (learned through experience and in different ways and types) - Answer-Common functions of memory systems Savings - Answer-Decreased effort needed to relearn because forgotten info still lingers outside conscious awareness, and a measure of memory strength Ebbinghaus - Answer-Psychologist who studied memory, learning, and forgetting by self-reporting performance on remembering nonsense syllables Massed practice - Answer-Learning or studying a large amount of information in a single session and is useful for learning new information Spaced practice - Answer-Studying or learning some information in multiple, short sessions and is useful for retaining information Forgetting curve - Answer-The rapid process of losing information Overlearning - Answer-Studying already learned information Clustering - Answer-Organizing items into related groups during recall from long-term memory Behaviorist language theory - Answer-Theory that the process of stimulus and response while rewarding correct grammar, spelling, etc., shapes language use Nativism language theory - Answer-Theory that humans are born with a language acquisition device and the ability to learn and develop langugage Chomsky - Answer-Linguist who proposed nativism language acquisition theorySkinner - Answer-Psychologist who proposed the behaviorist view on language acquisition Surface structure - Answer-The syntax of a sentence Deep structure - Answer-The semantics of a sentence subject to context Information processing theory - Answer-Theory that focuses on the specific ways in which people think about and process the information they receive Atkinson's and Shiffrin's Model of Memory - Answer-Early model of memory that attempts to explain the relationship between sensory memory, short term memory, and long-term memory Structural features - Answer-Permanent features that do not alter from situation to situation Control features - Answer-Activities like attention and rehearsal used to process information Sensory memory - Answer-Memory component that has a large capacity but a short duration that processes basic physical characteristics Iconic memory - Answer-Brief memory of an image or icon that lasts about 0.3 seconds Echoic memory - Answer-Brief memory of a sound that lasts about 2 seconds Sperling - Answer-Researcher who examined how much information could be taken in from a glance at a stimulus using partial or whole report Retrograde amnesia - Answer-Inability to remember past memories Anterograde amnesia - Answer-Inability to make new memories