Chapter 7 Flashcards
Free Recall
Say what you remember (Explicit)
Cued Recall
Hints to help you remember (Explicit)
Recognition
Choose the correct item from among several items (Explicit)
Savings
Relearn something. (Explicit)
Implicit memory
Unconscious retention of memory (sweating because you are in a dentist chair)
Explicit Memory
Conscious retention of memory
Priming
increasing the chance that you will use a word by reading or hearing a word
Procedural Memories
Remembering how to do something (riding a bike, tying a shoelace)
Declarative Memories
Memories that we can state in words (explicit)
Short Term Memory
temporary storage, limited capacity
Long Term Memory
Permanent Storage, vast capacity
Semantic memory
Remembering something that was taught (Long-term memory)
Episodic Memory
Remembering something that you experienced (Long-term)
source amnesia
forgetting how you learned something
Information-processing model
Information that is processed, coded, and stored.
chunking
Grouping items in meaningful sequence or cluster
Consolidation
Turning a short-term memory into long-term
working memory
active processing of what you see and hear and information retrieval from long term memory
executive functioning
governs shift of attention
primacy effect
remembering first item on list
recency effect
remember the last item on the list
Hypermnesia
Gain of memory over time
Reconstruction
What you remember and what must have happened, your expectations based on distinct memories
Hindsight Bias
To mold how events transpired to fit how events turned out
Proactive interference
Forgetting new because of old material
Retroactive interference
Forgetting old because of new material
Repression
Moving a memory from conscious mind to unconscious mind
Dissociation
Memory that cannot be retrieved
Retrograde
Inability to retrieve memories from the past
Anterograde
Inability to store new information (memento)
Amnesia
Damage to prefrontal cortex
Confabulations
Fill in gap in memory
