Memory Flashcards
When forgetting is due to encoding failure, information has not been transferred from…
Short-term memory into long-term memory
Ebbinghaus’ “forgetting curve” shows that after an initial decline, memory for novel information tends to
level out
The hour before sleep is a good time to memorize information, because going to sleep after learning new material minimizes ______ interference
retroactive
Freud proposed that painful or unacceptable memories are blocked from consciousness through a mechanism called _____
Repression
One reason false memories form is our tendency to fill in memory gaps with our reasonable guesses and assumptions, sometimes based on misleading information. This tendency is an example of
The misinformation effect
We may recognize a face at a social gathering but be unable to remember how we know that person. This is an example of
Source amnesia
When a situation triggers the feeling that “I’ve been here before” this is called
deja vu
Children can be accurate eyewitnesses if
A neutral person asks nonleading questions soon after the event
Psychologists involved in the study of memories of abuse tend to disagree with each other about what?
We tend to repress extremely upsetting memories
The hippocampus seems to function as a
temporary processing site for explicit memories
Hippocampus damage typically leaves people unable to learn new facts or recall events. However, they may be able to learn new skills, such as riding a bicycle, which is an ______ memory
Implicit
Long term potential refers to
an increase in a cell’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation
Specific odors, visual images, emotions, or other associations that help us access a memory are examples of
Retrieval Cues
A psychologist who asks you to write down as many objects as you can remember having seen a few minutes earlier is testing your
recall
The psychological terms for taking in information, retaining it, and later getting it back out are ___, ___, and __
encoding, storage, and retrieval
