Vocab 2nd half Flashcards
Iconic Memory
visual sensory memory consisting of a perfect photographic memory, which last no longer than 10 sec. brief visual memories
Hierarchies
broad concepts divided and subdivided into narrower concepts and facts
Echoic Memory
momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli, lasting 3-4 sec.
George Miller
Enshrined recall capacity of the magical number 7, plus or minus 2
Longterm Potentiation (LTP)
increase in synapse firing potential following brief, rapid stimulation. LTP is believed to be neural basis for learning and memory.
Amnesia
a loss of memory
Implict Memory
memories of skills, preferences, and dispositions, these are processed by the cerebellum.
Explicit Memory
memories of facts, including names, images, and events. Called Declarative Memories
Hippocampus
neural center in limbic system that is important in processing of explicit memories for storage
Cerebellum
“Little Brain” receives information from the sensory system, the spinal cord, and other parts of the brain
Recognition
measure of retention in which one need to identify, rather than recall, previously learned in formation
Recall
measure of retention in which the person must remember, with few retrieval cues, information learned earlier
Relearning
measure of retention that the less time it takes to relearn information, the more that the information can be retained
Priming
the activation, often unconscious, of a web of associations in memory in order to retrieve specific memories
Deja Vu
is the false sense that you have already experienced the current situation
Mood Congruent memory
the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with our current mood
Ebbinghaus
learned list of nonsense syllabus and measured how much the subject retained when relearning the list, 20 min up to 30 days, Forgetting Curve
Proactive Interference
the disruptive effect of something you already have learned on your efforts to learn or recall new information
Retroactive Interference
is the disruptive effect of something recently learned on old knowledge
Repression
is an example of motivated forgetting in that painful and unacceptable memories are prevented from entering onsciousness. In psychoanalytical theory, it is the basic defense mechanism.
Misinformation effect
is the tendency of eye witnesses to an event to incorporate misleading information about the event into their memories
Source Amnesia
refers to misattributing an event to the wrong source
