CH. 21 Memory

Question 1

encoding-storage-retrieval (ESR) model

Answer 1

standard view of memory according to which information is first encoded, then stored, and then retrieved at
recollection.

Question 2

engram or memory trace

Answer 2

vehicles that enable the preservation of memories
from encoding to retrieval.

Question 3

standard model of memory (SMM)

Answer 3

influential taxonomy of memory systems that divides long-term memory into declarative (explicit) and nondeclarative (implicit).

Question 4

episodic memory

Answer 4

memory for specific spatiotemporal events; it is said to be accompanied by autonoetic consciousness (i.e., awareness of oneself as
having experienced the event in the past).

Question 5

semantic memory

Answer 5

memory for conceptual and factual information; it is said to be accompanied by noetic consciousness.

Question 6

consolidation

Answer 6

the stabilization of a memory trace that has been stored after
encoding.

Question 7

content (in)variantism

Answer 7

the view according to which a memory’s content at encoding is (different) identical to that memory’s content at retrieval

Question 8

representationalism

Answer 8

in the context of this chapter, the view according to which
memory is mediated by representations.