Memory (encoding, storage, retrieval) Flashcards

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Autobiographical memory

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Memory for the events of one’s life.

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Consolidation

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The process occurring after encoding that is believed to stabilize memory traces.

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Cue overload principle

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The principle stating that the more memories that are associated to a particular retrieval cue, the less effective the cue will be in prompting retrieval of any one memory.

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Distinctiveness

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The principle that unusual events (in a context of similar events) will be recalled and recognized better than uniform (nondistinctive) events.

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Encoding

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The initial experience of perceiving and learning events.

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Encoding specificity principle

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The hypothesis that a retrieval cue will be effective to the extent that information encoded from the cue overlaps or matches information in the engram or memory trace.

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Engrams

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A term indicating the change in the nervous system representing an event; also, memory trace.

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Episodic memory

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Memory for events in a particular time and place.

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Flashbulb memory

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Vivid personal memories of receiving the news of some momentous (and usually emotional) event.

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Memory traces

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A term indicating the change in the nervous system representing an event.

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Misinformation effect

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When erroneous information occurring after an event is remembered as having been part of the original event.

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Mnemonic device

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A strategy for remembering large amounts of information, usually involving imaging events occurring on a journey or with some other set of memorized cues.

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Recoding

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The ubiquitous process during learning of taking information in one form and converting it to another form, usually one more easily remembered.

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Retrieval

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The process of accessing stored information.

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Retroactive interference

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The phenomenon whereby events that occur after some particular event of interest will usually cause forgetting of the original event.

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Semantic memory

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The more or less permanent store of knowledge that people have.

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storage

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The stage in the learning/memory process that bridges encoding and retrieval; the persistence of memory over time.