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PSYCHOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Memory Storage Forgetting
7-9: What is the capacity of long- term memory? Are our 7-16: Why do we forget?
long- term memories processed and stored in specific

locations? Memory Construction Errors
7-10: What roles do the hippocampus and frontal lobes 7-17: How do misinformation, imagination, and source
play in memory processing? amnesia influence our memory construction?
7-11: What roles do the cerebellum and basal ganglia play How do we decide whether a memory is real or
in memory processing? false?
7-12: How do emotions affect our memory processing? 7-18: Why have reports of repressed and recovered
memories been so hotly debated?
7-13: How do changes at the synapse level affect our
memory processing? 7-19: How reliable are young children’s eyewitness
descriptions?
Retrieval: Getting Information Out

7-14: How do psychologists assess memory with recall, Improving Memory
recognition, and relearning? 7-20: How can you use memory research findings to do
7-15: How do external events, internal moods, and order of better in this course and in others?
appearance affect memory retrieval?

tERMS AND CONCEPtS tO REMEMBER

TEST YOURSELF Write down the definition in your own words, flashbulb memory, p. 187 anterograde amnesia,
then check your answer. long- term potentiation p. 192
memory, p. 180 effortful processing, p. 181 (LTP), p. 187 retrograde amnesia, p. 192
encoding, p. 180 parallel processing, p. 182 recall, p. 188 memory trace, p. 192
storage, p. 180 chunking, p. 183 recognition, p. 188 proactive interference,
p. 193
retrieval, p. 180 mnemonics [nih- MON- iks], relearning, p. 188
p. 183 retrieval cue, p. 189 retroactive interference,
sensory memory, p. 180 p. 193
spacing effect, p. 184 priming, p. 189
short- term memory, p. 180 repression, p. 194
testing effect, p. 184 encoding specificity
long- term memory, p. 180 reconsolidation, p. 194
semantic memory, p. 185 principle, p. 190
working memory, p. 180 misinformation effect,
episodic memory, p. 185 mood- congruent memory,
implicit memory, p. 181 p. 190 p. 195
hippocampus, p. 185
automatic processing, serial position effect, source amnesia, p. 196
p. 181 memory consolidation, p. 190 déjà vu, p. 196
p. 185
explicit memory, p. 181
CHAPtER tESt

TEST YOURSELF Answer the following questions on your own 3. Sensory memory may be visual (
first, then check your answers in Appendix F, or by “showing” the memory) or auditory ( memory).
answer here. 4. Our short- term memory for new information is limited
to about bits of information.
1. The psychological terms for taking in information, 5. Memory aids that use visual imagery or other
retaining it, and later getting it back out are organizational devices are called .
, , and .
6. The hippocampus seems to function as a
2. The concept of working memory
a. temporary processing site for explicit memories.
a. clarifies the idea of short- term memory by focusing
on the active processing that occurs in this stage. b. temporary processing site for implicit
memories.
b. splits short- term memory into two substages —
sensory memory and iconic memory. c. permanent storage area for emotion- based
memories.
c. splits short- term memory into two types — implicit
and explicit memory. d. permanent storage area for unconscious
memories.
d. clarifies the idea of short- term memory by focusing
on space, time, and frequency.

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