AP Psych Chapter 6 VQ Flashcards
Memory
Active System that receives info from the senses, puts that info into a usable form, and organizes it as it stores it away, and then receives the info from storage
Encoding
Set of mental operations that people perform on sensory info to convert that info into a form that is usable in the brain’s storage system
Storage
Holding onto info for some period of time
Retrieval
Getting info that is in storing into a form that can be used
Sensory Memory
first stage of memory, the point at which info enters the nervous system through the sensory systems
Iconic Mem
Visual sensory memory, lasting only a fraction of a second
Eidetic Imagery
Ability to access a visual men for 30+ sec
Echoic Imagery
Brief mem of something a person has just heard
Short term mem (STM)
Mem sys in which info is held for brief periods of time while being used
Selective Attention
Ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input
Maintenance Rehearsal
Practice of saying some info to be remembered over and over in one’s head in order to maintain it in short term memory
Long term Memory (LTM)
System of men into which all info is placed to be kept more or less permanently
Elaborative Rehearsal
A method of transferring info from STM into LTM by making that info meaningful in some way
Anterograde Amnesia
Loss of memory from the point of injury/ trauma forward, or the inability to form new LTM’s
Implicit mem
Mem that’s not easily brought into conscious awareness, such as procedural memory
Declarative Mem
Type of LTM containing info that is conscious and known
Semantic Mem
Type of declarative mem containing general knowledge, such as knowledge of language and info learned in formal edu
Episodic Mem
Type of Dec. Mem containing personal info not readily available to others, such as daily activities and events
Explicit Mem
Mem that is consciously known, such as declarative memory
Primacy Effect
Tendency to rememver info at the beginning of a body of information better than the info that follows
Recency Effect
Tendency to remember info at the end of a bod of info better than the info at the beginning of it
Flashbulb Mems
Type of Auto encoding that occurs because an unexpected event has strong emotional associations for the person remembering it
Curve of Forgetting
Graph showing a distinct pattern in which forgetting is very fast within the first hr after learning a list and then tapers off gradually
Retrograde Amnesia
Loss of mem from the point of some injury or trauma backwards, or loss of memory for the past
Infantile Amnesia
Inability to retrieve memories from much before age 3
