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

Exceptional memory

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

Memory abilities of infants

Habituation-dishabituation paradigm

Conjugate-reinforcement paradigm

How long do memories last in infants?

Possible explanations  of infantile amnesia

Memory during childhood

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

Memory in older adults

STM/LTM differences

Effects of effort on performance

Explanations for memory decline in elderly

Speed of processing

inhibition of thoughts

attentional capacity

Autobiographical memories

Infantile Amnesia

Approaches to assessing autobiographical memories

cue-word method

Accuracy of autobiographical memories

Eyewitness memory

The misinformation effect

Arousal stress and emotion

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

State-dependent memory

Drug-dependent memory

Mood-dependent meory

Mood congruence

Memory during amnesia