14. Memory Flashcards
Memory for the event of one’s life
Autobiographical memory
The process occurring after encoding that is believed to stabilize memory traces
Consolidation
The principle stating that the more memories that are associated to a particular retrieval cue, the less effective the cue will be in prompting retrieval of any one memory
Cue Overload Principle
The principle that unusual events will be recalled and recognized better than uniform events
Distinctiveness
The initial experience of perceiving and learning events
Encoding
The hypothesis that a retrieval cue will be effective to the extent that information encoded from the cue overlaps or matches information in the engram or memory trace
Encoding Specificity Principle
A term indicating the change in the nervous system representing an event; also, memory trace
Engrams
Memory for events in a particular time and place
Episodic memory
Vivid personal memories of receiving the news of some momentous (usually emotional) event
Flashbulb memory
A term indicating the change in the nervous system representing an event
Memory Trace
When an erroneous information occurring after an event is remembered as having been a part of the original event
Misinformation effect
A strategy for remembering large amounts of information, usually involving imaging events occurring on a journey or with some other set of memorized cues
Mnemonic devices
The ubiquitous process during learning of taking information in one form and converting it to another form, usually one more easily remembered
Recording
The process of accessing stored information
Retrieval
The phenomenon whereby events that occur after some particular event of interest will usually cause forgetting of the original event
Retroactive interference
