Finals: Module 1 Flashcards
Refers to the view that forgetting occurs
because recall of certain words interferes
with recall of other words
Inference Theory
occurs when newly acquired knowledge impedes the recall of older material.
Retroactive interference
occurs when material that was learned in
the past impedes the learning of new
material.
Proactive inference
represents the probability of recall of a given word, given its serial position
Serial-position curve
refers to superior recall of words at and near the end of the list
Recency Effect
refers to superior recall of words at and near the beginning of a list
Primacy effect
Asserts that information
is forgotten because of
the gradual disappearance, rather
than displacement, of
the memory trace.
Decay Theory
Refers to memory of an
individual’s history
Autobiographical Memory
a memory of an event so powerful that the person remembers the event as vividly as if it were indelible preserved on film
Flashbulb memory
7 types of Memory
Distortion
Transience
Absent-mindedness
Blocking
Misattribution
Suggestibility
Bias
Persistence
3 under Flashbulb memory
- Surprising
- Important
- Emotional
General deterioration of a specific memory over time
Transience
where a person shows
inattentive or forgetful behavior
Absent-mindedness
- fades quickly
- episodic memory (hippocampus)
- caused by interference
Transience
- attention and recall
- attention and memory interface
- inattentiveness
Absent-mindedness
when the brain tries to retrieve or encode information, but another memory interferes with it.
Blocking
Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
Blocking
hypnosis is an example of this
Suggestibility
People often cannot remember where they heard what they heard or read what they read.
Misattribution
Entails incorrect recollection of information with incorrect recollection of the source of the
information
Misattribution
occurs partly because
memories encoded while a person was feeling a certain level of arousal and a certain type of
emotion come to mind more quickly when a person is in a similar mood.
Bias
involved the unwanted recall of information that is disturbing.
Persistence
_______ recollections are particularly susceptible to distortion
Fckn Children
memories that are alleged to have been
pushed down into unconsciousness because of the distress they cause
Repressed Memories
