Ch. 7 Test Flashcards
Free Recall
To produce a response as you would on an essay or test.
Cued Recall
To receive significant hints about material
Recognition
To recognize or choose and item among several options.
Savings method ( or relearning method)
Storing memory and remembering how to apply it to life.
Explicit Memory
Stating an answer and then regards it as a product of memory.
Implicit Memory
An experience can influence us in a way that we would it be aware of.
Procedural Memories
Memories of motor skills
Declarative Memories
Memories we can readily state in words
Short-term Memory
Temporary storage of recent events
Long-term Memory
A relatively permanent storage of memory
Semantic Memory
Memory of principle and facts
Episodic Memory
Memory for specific events in your life
Consolidate
Converting a short term memory into long term
Working Memory
A system for working with current information.
Primacy effect
Tendency to remember first item, slide, object in a list
Recency effect
Tendency to remember the finale slide, item, or object in a list.
Retrieval cues
Reminders
State-dependent memory
Tendency to remember something better when body is in same condition during recall as it was during the original learning.
Mnemonic device
Any memory aid that relies on encoding each item in a special way.
Reconstruct
During an original experience, we construct a memory.
Memory
The repetition of information
Hippocampus
Part of the brain that has to do with memory
Amnesia
Loss of memory
