CH7 - Memory & Forgetting Flashcards
Define echoic storage
An auditory sensory registration process by which people retain an echo or brief auditory representation of a sound to which they have been exposed.
Name the notion that memories are lost as a result of a fading of the memory trace.
Decay Theory
Explain chunking
The process of organising information into small, meaningful bits to aid memory.
Define anterograde amnesia
An inability to learn anything new.
What is encoding?
Refers to information that is cast into a representational form or ‘code,’ so that it can be readily accessed from memory.
Define iconic storage
A visual sensory registration process by which people retain an afterimage of a visual stimulus.
Define implicit memory
Memory that cannot be brought to mind consciously but can be expressed in behaviour.
Name the conscious ‘work-space’ used for retrieving and manipulating information, maintained through maintenance rehearsal
Working memory
Define verbal representations
Information represented in words.
What is the theory that the presentation of a stimulus triggers activation of closely related nodes.
Spreading Activation Theory
What is retrospective memory?
Memory for events that have already occurred.
Retroactive interference is..
Interference of new information with the retrieval of old information.
What is anterograde amnesia?
An inability to learn anything new.
