Memory Vocab

Question 1

Encoding

Answer 1

Convert into coded form

Question 2

Storage

Answer 2

Store something for future use

Question 3

Retrieval

Answer 3

Process of retrieving something from somewhere

Question 4

Automatic Processing

Answer 4

Type of thinking/cognition - doesn’t involve effort

Question 5

Effortful Processing

Answer 5

Learning or storing that requires effort and attention

Question 6

Rehearsal

Answer 6

Action of processing or rehearsing

Question 7

Overlearning

Answer 7

Continue memorizing information after learning it

Question 8

Serial Position Effect

Answer 8

Recall first and last items of a list easier

Question 9

Semantic Encoding

Answer 9

Encoding of meaning

Question 10

Self-Reference Effect

Answer 10

Enhanced semantic coding of info - personally relevant

Question 11

Mnemonic Device

Answer 11

Memory trick or technique

Question 12

Method of Loci

Answer 12

Associate items you want to remember with imaginary places

Question 13

Peg-Word System

Answer 13

Associate items with a list of words already memorized

Question 14

Chunking

Answer 14

Organize info into meaningful units

Question 15

Sensory Memory

Answer 15

Initial coding of sensory information in memory system

Question 16

Short-Term Memory

Answer 16

Contains info you were already consciously aware of before it was started

Question 17

Long-Term Memory

Answer 17

Relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of memory system

Question 18

Flashbulb Memory

Answer 18

Vivid memory of emotionally significant event

Question 19

Long-Term Potentiation

Answer 19

Increase in synapses firing efficiency - when neurons fire repeatedly

Question 20

Explicit Memory

Answer 20

Memory of facts and experiences (hippocampus)

Question 21

Implicit Memory

Answer 21

Memory of skills and procedures (cerebellum)

Question 22

Recall

Answer 22

Type of retrieval, must search for previously stored information

Question 23

Recognition

Answer 23

Type of retrieval, must identify previously learned items

Question 24

Context Effect

Answer 24

Ability to retrieve information when in similar environment to the one you’re currently in

Question 25

State-Dependent Memory

Answer 25

Retrieve memory when in same physical and emotional state you were in when you encoded the info

Question 26

Permastore Memory

Answer 26

Long-term memories especially resistant to forgetting - likely to last a lifetime

Question 27

Proactive Interference

Answer 27

Older memory disrupts recall of newer memory

Question 27

Retroactive Interference

Answer 27

More recent memory disrupts recall of older memory

Question 28

Repression

Answer 28

Process of moving anxiety-producing memories to unconscious mind

Question 29

Misinformation Effect

Answer 29

Incorporate misleading