Memory, Encoding,Storage, Retrival Flashcards
Episodic Memeory
Memory for events in a particular time and place
Memory traces
A term indicator the change in the nervous system representing an event
Misinformation effect
When erroneous information occurring after an event is remembered as having been part of the original event
Mnemonic devices
A strategy for remembering large amounts of information, usually involving imaging events occurring on a journey or with some other set of memorized cues.
Recoding
The ubiquitous process during learning of taking information in one form and converting it to another form, usually one more easily remembered
Retrieval
The process of accessing stores information
Retroactive interference
The phenomenon whereby events that occur after particular event of interest will usually cause forgetting of the original event
Semantic memory
The more or less permanent store of knowledge that people have
Storage
The stage in the learning/memory process that bridges encoding and retrieval; the persistence of memory over time
Episodic memory
Memory of events in a particular time and place
Consolidation
The process occurring after encoding that is believed to stabilize memory traces
Cue overload principle
The principle stating that the more memories that are associated to a particular retrieval cue, the less effective cue will be in prompting retrieval of any one memory
Distinctiveness
The principle that unusual events ( in a context of similar events) will be recalled and recognized better than uniform (non distinctive) events
Encoding
The initial experience of perceiving and learning events
Encoding specificity principle
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
