memory Flashcards
 Sensory memory
Remembering some thing briefly
ex. Asking a Student what you just said and they can give you an answer
Self reference affect
remember things better when you relate it to yourself
Spacing
studying a little group at a time
deep processing
coming up with deeper meanings to remember things
Mnemonics
Hooks people used to remember things
Peg word
hang a memory on an image
Chunking
Type of pneumonic
Chunking things together like a phone number
Implicit memory
muscle memory
ex. Learning how to ride a bike
Explicit memory
knowing stuff (knowledge)
Automatic processing
Remembering some thing without trying to remember
Effortful processing
trying to remember something
Procedural memory
Routine/knowing things in steps
encoding
getting things through each part of memory
decay
Forgetting
Priming
things that spur your memory
ex. music/smell
Flashbulb memories
Highly emotional memories
Interference
getting in the way of learning something accurately
Proactive
—> Old messing up new
Retroactive
<— New messing up old
ex. You’ve known German your whole life but you just learn French and when speaking German you add French words
shallow processing
Kind of processing but not really
Cerebellum
Helps with implicit memory
Hippocampus
Takes memory from short-term to long-term
Overlearning
Going over so much that you really know it
anterograde amnesia
no new memories after accident
Retrograde amnesia
Loss of all memories
Short term stress’s affect on memory
Enhances memory
Long-term stress’s affect on memory
Causes hippocampus to shrink
Iconic memory
sensory memory with sight
ex. Hear or see is in there briefly
Where are explicit memories and the brain?
Throughout cerebral arteries
Amygdala
- Part of the brain that makes you feel strong emotion
- Next hippocampus so that’s why you associate emotions with memories
Recognition
When you see something you recognize
ex. mult choice on test
Recall
when you have to recall a memory you need to encode it better
Source miss attribution/source amnesia
Forgetting where you learn some thing
Tip of the tongue phenomenon
When somethings on the tip of your tongue – retrieval issue
Next in line effect
Not listening to the person ahead of you because you know you’re next
Serial position effect
learn the first and last parts of a sequence best
ex. activity in class
Types of encoding
- Visual
- Acoustic – sound
- Semantic– Story behind it
Herman Ebbinghaus
studied memory and how fast he forgot things
long-term potentiation 
reacting to some thing because you associate that with something that causes a reaction
ex. snail experiment 
Cerebral cortex
Where memories are stored
Rosie retrospection
Remembering good things better than bad
Neurotransmitter
A messenger that transports info through the brain
acetylcholine
The neurotransmitter associated with memories
Mood congruency
Remembering happy things when you’re happy and sad things when you’re sad
Place congruency
remembering things about a place when you are there 
Freud
Came up with how people try to forget things (repression)
repression
Motivated forgetting
method of loci
putting things in a place
ex. Remembering talking about a topic when you are where you talked about that topic
Episodic memory
remembering what you have done through the day
Recency effect
Remembering things that happen recently
ex. And saying that the greatest football player of all time is someone you’ve seen play recently
context dependent memory
remember things better in the context of where you learned it
primacy
the first part of a sequence
recency
the last part of a sequence
