CHAPTER 6 Vocab O-T Flashcards
Continued rehearsal of material after one first appears to have mastered it
Overlearning
Models of memory that assume cognitive processes depend on patterns of activation in highly interconnected computational networks that resemble neural networks
Parallel distributed processing models
Simultaneously extracting different kinds of information from the same input
Parallel processing
A memory problem that occurs when previously learned information interferes with the retention of new information
Proactive interference
The repository of memories for actions, skills and operations
Procedural memory system
The ability to remember to perform actions int he future
Prospective memory
The process of deciding whether memories are based on external sources (our perceptions of actual events) or internal sources (our thoughts and imaginations)
Reality monitoring
A memory test that requires subjects to reproduce information on their own without any cues
Recall
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
Relearning
Keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried int he unconscious
Repression
The proportion of material retained
Retention
Recovering information from memory stores
Retrieval
A memory problem that occurs when new information impairs the retention of previously learned information
Retroactive interference
A memory test that requires subjects to select previously learned information from an array of options
Recognition
Loss of memories for events that occurred prior to a head injury
Retrograde amnesia
The ability to remember events from the past or previously learned information
Retrospective memory
AN organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or sequence of events
Schema
A type of schema that organizes what people now about common activities
Script
Deciding on how or whether information is personally relevant
Self-referent encoding
General knowledge that is not tied to the time when te information was learned
Semantic memory system
Concepts joined together by links that show the concepts are related
Semantic network
the preservation of information in its original sensory form for a brief time, usually only a fraction of a second
Sensory memory
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
Serial position effect
A limited capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for about 20 to 30 seconds
Short term memory
The process of making attributions about the origins of memories
Source monitoring
An error that occurs when a memory derived from one source is misattributed to another source
Source monitoring error
Maintaining encoded information in memory over time
Storage
A temporary inability to remember something accompanied by a feeling that it’s just out of reach
Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
The situation that occurs when the initial processing of information is similar to the type of processing required by the subsequent measures of attention
Transfer appropriate processing
