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Memory Study Guide
1.
What is encoding?
2.
What is retrieval?
3.
Explain the difference between short-term and long-term memory.
4.
How many “bits” of information can we store in our short-term memory?
In our long-term memory?
5.
What is parallel processing?
6.
What is automatic processing?
What kind of information do we automatically encode or process?
7.
Explain the following memory techniques:
rehearsal:
spacing effect:
8.
What is the serial position effect?
9.
What is the difference between
Visual encoding?
Acoustic encoding?
Semantic encoding?
10. Explain and give an example of a mnemonic device.
11. Explain and give an example of chunking.
12.
What is implicit memory?
What is explicit memory?
Which do amnesia victims usually retain?
13. Explain and give an example of priming.
14. What is déjà vu?
15. Explain and give an example of a mood-congruent memory.
16. Why were so many of you unable to remember how Lincoln’s head appeared on the penny?
17. Explain the difference between proactive and retroactive interference.
18. Explain and give an example of the misinformation effect.
19. Explain and give an example of source amnesia.
20.
Are stressful memories repressed?
21. Explain why children do not make accurate eyewitnesses and what can be done gain accurate testimony from them.
22. Although you genuinely enjoyed studying hard for a chemistry test, during the test you are feeling frustrated and irritable
because you can’t recall the answer to a series of fairly easy factual questions. Briefly explain at least three potential causes of
your forgetting.
23. Describe how you can use four of the memory improvement techniques that we discussed in class (at the very end of your notes)
to improve your recall of material you study.
24. Explain and give an example from your own life of the confirmation bias.