UConn Psych 1100 Eric Lundquist Final Exam Questions + Answers Graded A+

Long Term Memory - Relatively permanent, infinite capacity, semantic (boat/ship), structural pattern of connections, Forgetting is Misplacement/retrieval failure Short Term Memory (Working Memory) - Seconds to minutes, 5-9 pieces of information, phonological (boat/coat), dynamic pattern of activity, Forgetting is displacement/decay Flow of information in memory - Stimulus -> STM -> rehearsal-> LTM Two types of rehearsal - maintenance- holds info in STM elaborative- moves info to LTM Primacy effect - Early part of list recalled better than the middle, from the LTM Recency Effect - Last part of list recalled better than middle, from STM Trace Consolidation - A memory goes from a dynamic pattern to a structural pattern Amnesia - An interruption of trace consolidation Retrograde amnesia - Events before trauma Anterograde amnesia - Events after trauma Proactive interference - Old info affects new in LTM forgettingRetroactive interference - New info affects old in LTM forgetting Depth of Processing Experiment (Craik and Tulving 1975) - Asked people questions such as Visual (Capital?), Acoustic (Rhyme?), or Semantic (Sentence Fit) Deeper thinking led to better memorization of said words Episodic - Episodes or events with time and place (I saw an elephant in 2004) Generic/semantic - Facts, concepts, and meanings (An elephant has floppy ears and a trunk) Explicit - Reference to prior learning: Recall- what were words on list Recognition- Circle the words you saw earlier Implicit - No concious awarness of remembering: stem completion- MOT__ Word fragment completion- _U_O_O_I_E Declarative - Knowing that (mainly explicit) statements, using episodic and generic information Procedural - Knowing how (mainly implicit) Skills: riding a bike/playing an instrument Retention Without Awareness - Amnesiac patients and normal controls tested for memory of words learned previously, amnesiacs were bad at explicit but equal on implicit memory tasks Encoding Specificity Principle - Retrieval cue- current stimulus that aids retrieval, any memory for an item has the items context in it too, context cues should be just like context when learnedContext-Dependent Memory - Scuba divers learned words under water or on land, tested for recall, better in context when in same enviornments Loftus and Palmer experiment (1974) - View slides of car accident, ask how fast were cars going when HIT/SMASHED INTO each other, week later, was there broken glass? Yes was WAY more likely for Smash group so memory can be distorted