Review Sheet for Exam 2
Note: This is only a partial list of terms
and concepts. There may be other
terms and concepts withwhich you should be familiar. In order to perform well on an exam, you should not only
know the definition of a concept, but be able to provide examples or
experiments that support it.
Effects of mental
representations on memory
Schemata
(schemas)
Story
grammars
memory
for places
Inferences
and inferences in advertising
Effects
of labels on encoding/recall
Individual differences in
memory abilities
How much of a role does
expertise play in memory?
Chess,
horse racing, etc.
What
skills do memory experts use?
Chunking, hierarchical knowledge
structures
Skilled Memory Theory
People with Exceptional
memory
S,
V.P. S.F. Rajan Mahadevan, What
abilities do they have and why?
Idiot
Savants
Eidetic Imagery
Habituation-dishabituation
paradigm
Conjugate-reinforcement
paradigm
How
long do memories last in infants?
Possible
explanations of infantile amnesia
Explanations
forchanges in STM span
practice,
automaticity, chunking
Differences
in Long term memory
Effects
of knowledgebase on memory
Metamemory
in children
Development
of memory strategies
Rehearsal
and organizational strategies
STM/LTM
differences
Effects
of effort on performance
Explanations
for memory decline in elderly
Speed
of processing
inhibition
of thoughts
attentional
capacity
Infantile
Amnesia
Approaches
to assessing autobiographical memories
cue-word
method
Accuracy
of autobiographical memories
Eyewitness
memory
The
misinformation effect
Yerkes-Dodson
Law
The
Easterbrook Hypothesis
Action
Decrement theory
The
effects of stress on memory
Repression
False Memory Syndrome
Effects of depression on
memory deficits
Resource-allocation
hypothesis
Drug-dependent
memory
Mood-dependent
meory
Mood
congruence
Memory during amnesia