Unit 7 vocabulary (Memory) Flashcards
Amnesia
Loss of memory
Anterograde amnesia
Can’t form new memories
Chunking
Putting items into units for memorization
Decay theory
Memory fades over time
Declarative memory
Memory of facts
Elaborative rehearsal
Memorizing meaning of a term
Instead of term itself
Encoding specificity principal
Memory increases when information is at encoding and retrieval
Episodic memory
Collection of happenings at a time or place
Explicit memory
Memory of facts
Flashbulb memories
Vivid memories of emotionally significant happenings
Implicit memory
Memorizing things without realizing it
Long-term memory
Relatively permanent storehouse of the memory system
Long-term potential
Increase in cell’s firing potential after short but rapid stimulation
Maintenance rehearsal
Repeatedly verbalizing or thinking about information
Memory
Learning through encoding, storage, and retrieval
Mnemonic device
Memory aids (like vivid imagery)
Motivated forgetting
A way for people to forget unwanted memories
Primary effect
Beginning and end or most remembered
Priming
Associations creating different memories or perceptions
Proactive interference
Prior learning disrupting recall of new information
Procedural memory
Motor skills in long-term memory
Recall
When one has to find info in long-term memory
Recognition
When one has to recognize information
Retrograde amnesia
inability to know information about past
Semantic memory
Part of long-term memory for non-personal experience
Sensory memory
Brief recording of sensory information in memory system (first part of system)
Serial position effect
No last and first best
Source amnesia
Forgetting where the memory comes from
State dependent memory
Same state of consciousness increases memory recall
Storage
Storing encoded messages
Suggestibility
Alterability of memories with false information
Working memory
Using short-term memory consciously
