Mod 25 Flashcards
primary: triggering which memories
get used
serial position effect: … and … effects on what is most easily recalled
primacy; recency
recall: some people, through practice, visual strategies, or biological differences, have the ability to store and recall thousands of … or .., reproducing them later
recognition: the avg person can view .. new faces and places, and later can notice with … percent accuracy which ones they’ve seen before
relearning: some people are unable to form new memories, especially of …; although they would not recall a puzzle-solving lesson, they might still solve the puzzle… each lesson
words; digits; 2500; 90; episodes; faster
our storage and recall capacity is virtually …
unlimited
our capacity for recognition is greater than our capacity for
recall
relearning can highlight that memories are there even if we can’t
recall forming them
in the late 1800s, Hermann Ebbinghaus studied another measure of memory functioning: how much time did it take to … and regain … of material?
relearn; mastery
Ebbinghaus studied the memorization of … so that … of processing or … would not be a factor. the more he rehearsed out loud ond ay 1, the less time he needed to relearn/ memorize the same letters on day 2
nonsense syllables; depth; prelearning
memory is stored as a … of associations: …, …, …
web; conceptual; contextual; emotional
priming: retrieval is affected by activating our
associations
priming triggers a thread of associations that bring us to a …, our minds work by having one idea ..; this maintains a flow of thought
concept; trigger another
priming has been called … because it affects us …
invisible memory; unconsciously
we may have … and … stored in memory that also influence our choices
biases; assoications
context-dependent memory: part of the web of associations of a memory is the …
context
we retrieve a memory more easily when in the … as when we formed the memory
same context
state-dependent memory: our memories are not just linked to the external context in which we learned them. they can also be tied to the … we were in when we formed the memory
emotional state
mood-congruent memory refers to the tendency to … that are consistent with one’s current mood –> this biased memory then ..
selectively recall details; reinforces our current modo
memories can be linked to. ..
physiological states
priming and context cues are not the only factors which make memory retrieval selective. the serial position effect refers tot he tendency, when learning information in a long list, to more likely recall the .. items (… effect) and the …items (… effect)
first; primacy; last; recency
