Memory

Question 1

absentmindedness

Answer 1

forgetting to do things

Question 2

amnesia

Answer 2

loss of memories

Question 3

anterograde amnesia

Answer 3

can’t form new memories

Question 4

blocking

Answer 4

mental block

Question 5

chunking

Answer 5

info can be chunked into larger units to help remember them

Question 6

encoding

Answer 6

movement of info from short term memory to long term

Question 7

episodic memory

Answer 7

remembering knowledge from specific past experiences/events

Question 8

explicit memory

Answer 8

learning facts and events

Question 9

flashbulb memories

Answer 9

very vivid memory

Question 10

implicit memory

Answer 10

learning a skill or creating a habit usually through performance

Question 11

long term memory

Answer 11

memory that has unlimited capacity and duration

Question 12

long term potentiation

Answer 12

process of strengthening synapses to create long lasting signals

Question 13

memory

Answer 13

a record for the past that is used for the present

Question 14

memory bias

Answer 14

bias that alters the memory in some way because memories are not an exact replica of reality

Question 15

mnemonics

Answer 15

mental tricks used to encode info for long term memory

Question 16

persistence memories

Answer 16

unwanted memories that cannot seem to be forgotten

Question 17

proactive interference

Answer 17

interference of old material making new material hard to remember

Question 18

procedural memory

Answer 18

considered implicit memory

Question 19

prospective memory

Answer 19

memory to do things in the future (intentional)-example: remember to take meds

Question 20

reconsolidation

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retrieving long term memories to use-example: a child learns a language while growing up

Question 21

retrieval

Answer 21

basically remembering which is taking past info and memories from the LTM to the STM

Question 22

retrieval cue

Answer 22

the things around us that cue your brain to remember or retrieve info

Question 23

retroactive interference

Answer 23

learning new things sometimes causes u to forget the old things that have been remembered in the past

Question 24

retrograde amnesia

Answer 24

can’t recall memories made before the amnesia-example: forget they have a car but remember how to drive

Question 25

schemas

Answer 25

structures in long term memory that help us perceive, organize, process info-examples: social roles, stereotypes

Question 26

somatic memory

Answer 26

general memory of things u need to know to engage in the environment around u-examples: words, letters, numbers, etc.

Question 27

sensory memory

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mental representation of how your environment, looks, feels, smells, etc.

Question 28

serial position effect

Answer 28

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Question 29

short term memory

Answer 29

only there temporarily-used for thinking and using ideas in that moment - present or working memory

Question 30

source amnesia

Answer 30

can’t recall where when or how a person has learned-examples: remembering something someone said to u or what was on the news

Question 31

source misattribution

Answer 31

not remembering how u got to something-example: thinking one of your friends made u a coffee and finding out it was someone else

Question 32

storage

Answer 32

maintaining info overtime in the LTM

Question 33

suggestibility

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false memory-example: someone says to u “he had an earring remember” and then suddenly u remember that even though u he didn’t have an earring

Question 34

working memory

Answer 34

the present working memory-basically STM