Key Terms Flashcards
Accessibility
Problems associated with retrieval
Episodic memory
Memory of a day or specific event
Availability
Problems associated with storage
State cues
Internal cues
Cerebellum
Back of the head near the spine: procedural and semantic memory
STM
Limited capacity + duration
Hippocampus
The part of the brain responsible for making new memories
Amnesia
The loss of memory
Retrograde amnesia
Loss of memory before it developed
Anterograde amnesia
Inability to make new memories
Misinformation effect
Remembering something incorrectly
Distortion
When you change your memory to something else
Confabulation
Making up details to make a more complete story
Context cues
External cues
Displacement
When the STM runs out of space, the info is displaced
Autobiographical memory
Memories we collect in our lifetimes
Schema
A mental representation of something based on a prior experience
Faulty episodic memory
Memories of past events that are recalled incorrectly
Faulty semantic memory
When your knowledge and understanding of things can be inaccurate
Auditory cortex
The part of the brain that processes information it receives from the ears
Frontal lobe
A part of the brain that is its control centre and is responsible for functions such as planning, organisation and making judgements
Procedural memory
Responsible for ‘motor skills’. These are things like walking and being able to feed ourselves
Leading questions
Questions which suggest a certain type of answer
Overload
the result of too much information entering a memory store
Wechsler Memory scale
A diagnostic tool used by psychologists to evaluate how much brain damage patients have after injury or illness
