Memory Flashcards
Brain stores info indefinitely
Encoding
Placing new info into memory
Storage
Involves remembering with external cues or internal cues
Retrieval
The things you remember come without any conscious awareness
Automatic Processing
mental activity that requires deliberation
Effortful Processing
Repeating info over and over again to remember
Rehearsal
Rehearsing skill after you no longer improving
Overlearning
More likely to remember info at beginning or end
Serial Position Effect
Attaching sense to memory
Semantic Encoding
Better memory for things relevant to you
Self-Reference Effect
Ways to help remember large amounts of info
Mnemonic Device
Imagine a place and you match terms to that things in that location
Method of Loci
Come up with a item for each word memorizing and rhyme with it
Peg-Word System
Pair together smaller groups to memorize at a time
Chunking
The way we remember the way things feel, taste, sound, looks, and smells
Sensory Memory
Holds info for normally 20 seconds or so
Short-Term Memory
Large memory storage, can be stored for life
Long-Term Memory
autobiographical memories
Flashbulb Memory
persistent increase in synapse strength
Long-Term Potentiation
type of long term memory, facts and events
Explicit Memory
retained information
Implicit Memory
Retrieval of mental info in the past
Recall
Identify similar stimulus or situation that previously happened
Recognition
relation between context at time of study
Context Effect
Remember if physical or mental state are similar for learning and remembering
State-Dependent Memory
extremely long term memory
Permastore Memory
Older memories interfere with new memories
Proactive Interference
Forget old ability because learned new ability
Retroactive Interference
Memory is isolated/forgotten in brain
Repression
Memory is altered due to wrong/misleading information
Misinformation Effect
