chap 6 Flashcards
Anterograde amnesia
Amnesia for events that occur after an injury—that is, the inability to form new memories.
Classical conditioning
A procedure in which pairing a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that elicits a response causes the neutral stimulus to elicit that response.
Conceptual priming
Priming that occurs when the enhancement caused by a priming stimulus is based on the meaning of the stimulus. For example, presentation of the word furniture causing a faster response to later presentation of the word chair.
Declarative memory
Memory that involves conscious recollections of events or facts that we have learned in the past.
Episodic memory
Memory for specific events that have happened to the person having the memory. These events are usually remembered as a personal experience that occurred at a particular time and place. This and semantic memory together make up declarative memory.
Explicit memory
Memory that involves conscious recollections of events or facts that we have learned in the past. Also called declarative memory or conscious memory.
implicit memory
Memory that occurs when an experience affects a person’s behavior, even though the person is not aware that he or she has had the experience. Also called nondeclarative memory.
Korsakoff’s syndrome
A condition caused by prolonged vitamin B1 deficiency that leads to destruction of areas on the frontal and temporal lobes that causes severe impairments in memory.
Long-term memory (LTM)
A memory mechanism that can hold large amounts of information for long periods of time. Long-term memory is one of the stages in the modal model of memory.
Mental time travel
According to Tulving, the defining property of the experience of episodic memory, in which a person travels back in time in his or her mind to reexperience events that happened in the past. See also Self-knowing.
Nondeclarative memory
Memory that occurs when an experience affects a person’s behavior, even though the person is not aware that he or she has had the experience.
Primacy effect
In a memory experiment in which a list of words is presented, enhanced memory for words presented at the beginning of the list.
Priming
A change in response to a stimulus caused by the previous presentation of the same or a similar stimulus.
Procedural memory
Memory for how to carry out highly practiced skills. This is a type of implicit memory because although people can carry out a skilled behavior, they often cannot explain exactly how they are able to do so.
Propaganda effect
People are more likely to rate statements they have read or heard before as being true, just because of prior exposure to the statements
