Psychology Test 3 Review

1: Encoding means

Programming computers

modifying information so we remember it better

deleting unnecessary information to remember necessary information

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2: retrieval means

recalling difficult to remember information

bringing stored information into consciousness

developing techniques to remember stored information

3: what is memory storage

how we encode information to recall it later

do i need to give a second one here really

4: selective attention

focusing on one piece of information and ignoring other information

focusing on one piece of information more than other pieces of information

choosing which information is more correct than other information given

5: Information that is related to other information that is already stored

elaborative rehearsal

encoding

discriminatory rerhearsal

boobies

6: Mental repetition in order to better remember information

elaborative rehearsal

maintenance rehearsal

7: working memory is also known as

long term memory

short term memory

8: chunking means

to group information/stimulus together

to group events together

to remember information on a more broad spectrum

9: Using pressure of consistency with past behaviours to increase compliance with larger requests

door-in-the-face

foot-in-the-door

door-to-the-back

knock-knock-whose-there

10: We are motivated to make our cognitions/beliefs consistent.

Cognitive-Dissasociation Theory

Cognitive-Distinct Theory

Cognitive-Dissonance Theory

11: i just want the world to be friends

attribution of character

schema

altruism

she doesnt even go here

12: what is shema

A way of mentally representing the world, such as a belief/expectation that influences the perception of persons, objects, and situations.

A way of mentally representing your perception of reality

A way of determining what is real and what is not real

13: Interference Theory

stored information tampered with by emotional states

information interfered with by old/new learning

information interfered with by trauma

14: How people remember 9/11 is

interference theory

retrograde amnesia

flashbulb memory

photographic memory

15: photographic memory is actually called

eidetic memory

echoic memory

16: dissociative amnesia is caused by head trauma

true

false

17: dissociative amnesia is caused by emotional trauma

true

false

18: antegrade amnesia is caused by head trauma

true

fakse

19: if a person does not remember events prior to trauama they are experiencing

dissociative amnesia

retrograde amnesia

a drug trip

interference theory

20: the # of people around, the less helpful they are

schema effect

bystander effect

flashbulb effect

these are hard