Chapter 9-2nd Half Flashcards
Echoic memory
Auditory sensory memory that lasts for 3-4 seconds
Iconic memory
Visual sensory memory that lasts for 1-2 seconds
George miller
Known for his work with short-term memory, can only hold on to so much
Long-term potentiation (LTP)
An increase In A synapses firing potential after a brief, rapid stimulation
Amnesia
Loss of memory
Implicit memory
Memory of learned skills that does not require conscious recollection
Cerebellum
Explicit memory
Memories of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare
Personal events
Hippocampus
Hippocampus
Helps process explicit memories - limbic system
Recognition
Measure of memory in which a person needs to identify items previously learned
Recall
Measure of memory that can be retrieved
Relearning
Memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material a 2nd time
Priming
The activation (unconsciously) of a particular association in memory
Deja vu
Sense that you’ve experienced if before
Mood-congruent memory
Recall experiences that are consistent with your mood
Proactive interference
Something we have learned in the past interferes with our ability to recall things we have recently learned
Retroactive interference
Something we have recently learned interferes with something we learned in the past
Repression
Traumatic events that we push into our submemory and unconsciously forget it
Misinformation effect
Incorporating misleading information into ones memory of an event
Source amnesia
Being told a story/dreaming/movies are so realistic that we think we are a part of it, but never happened
State dependent memory
What we learned in one state is sometimes more easily recalled when we are again in that state
Elizabeth loftnus
Known for her work with memory
