CHAPTER 6 Vocab O-T

Question 1

Continued rehearsal of material after one first appears to have mastered it

Answer 1

Overlearning

Question 2

Models of memory that assume cognitive processes depend on patterns of activation in highly interconnected computational networks that resemble neural networks

Answer 2

Parallel distributed processing models

Question 3

Simultaneously extracting different kinds of information from the same input

Answer 3

Parallel processing

Question 4

A memory problem that occurs when previously learned information interferes with the retention of new information

Answer 4

Proactive interference

Question 5

The repository of memories for actions, skills and operations

Answer 5

Procedural memory system

Question 6

The ability to remember to perform actions int he future

Answer 6

Prospective memory

Question 7

The process of deciding whether memories are based on external sources (our perceptions of actual events) or internal sources (our thoughts and imaginations)

Answer 7

Reality monitoring

Question 8

A memory test that requires subjects to reproduce information on their own without any cues

Answer 8

Recall

Question 9

A memory test that requires subjects to memorize information a second time to determine how much time or effort is saved by having learned it before

Answer 9

Relearning

Question 10

Keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried int he unconscious

Answer 10

Repression

Question 11

The proportion of material retained

Answer 11

Retention

Question 12

Recovering information from memory stores

Answer 12

Retrieval

Question 13

A memory problem that occurs when new information impairs the retention of previously learned information

Answer 13

Retroactive interference

Question 14

A memory test that requires subjects to select previously learned information from an array of options

Answer 14

Recognition

Question 15

Loss of memories for events that occurred prior to a head injury

Answer 15

Retrograde amnesia

Question 16

The ability to remember events from the past or previously learned information

Answer 16

Retrospective memory

Question 17

AN organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or sequence of events

Answer 17

Schema

Question 18

A type of schema that organizes what people now about common activities

Answer 18

Script

Question 19

Deciding on how or whether information is personally relevant

Answer 19

Self-referent encoding

Question 20

General knowledge that is not tied to the time when te information was learned

Answer 20

Semantic memory system

Question 21

Concepts joined together by links that show the concepts are related

Answer 21

Semantic network

Question 22

the preservation of information in its original sensory form for a brief time, usually only a fraction of a second

Answer 22

Sensory memory

Question 23

IN memory tests, the fact that subjects show better recall for items at the begging and end of a list than for items int he middle

Answer 23

Serial position effect

Question 24

A limited capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for about 20 to 30 seconds

Answer 24

Short term memory

Question 25

The process of making attributions about the origins of memories

Answer 25

Source monitoring

Question 26

An error that occurs when a memory derived from one source is misattributed to another source

Answer 26

Source monitoring error

Question 27

Maintaining encoded information in memory over time

Answer 27

Storage

Question 28

A temporary inability to remember something accompanied by a feeling that it’s just out of reach

Answer 28

Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

Question 29

The situation that occurs when the initial processing of information is similar to the type of processing required by the subsequent measures of attention

Answer 29

Transfer appropriate processing