Vocab for Memory

Question 1

Persistence of learning over time

Answer 1

memory

Question 2

retrieval of information that is not in our conscious awareness but had been learned at an earlier time

Answer 2

Recall

Question 3

identifying items previously learned

Answer 3

recoginiton

Question 4

learning something more quickly when you learn a second time

Answer 4

relearning

Question 5

putting in new information

Answer 5

encoding

Question 6

organizing the information

Answer 6

store

Question 7

pull out the information

Answer 7

retrieve

Question 8

the consideration of many aspects of a problem simultaneously

Answer 8

parallel processing

Question 9

immediate very brief recording of sensory info in the memory system

Answer 9

sensory memory

Question 10

memory that holds a few items before info is stored or forgotten

Answer 10

short term memory

Question 11

relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system

Answer 11

long term memory

Question 12

understanding of short term memory that adds conscious active processing of incoming auditory and visual information and of information retrieved from long term memory

Answer 12

working memory

Question 13

DECLARATIVE
retention of facts and experiences from long term memory that one can declare HAVE TO TRY

Answer 13

explicit memory

Question 14

NON-DECLARATIVE
retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations in long term memory independent of conscious recollection
GOES RIGHT TO LONG TERM MEMORY

Answer 14

implicit memory

Question 15

sensory memory using your eyes goes away super fast

Answer 15

iconic memory

Question 16

auditory stimulus stays for 3-4 seconds

Answer 16

echoic memory

Question 17

the ability
to juggle multiple items while processing
information

Answer 17

working memory capacity

Question 18

organizing items into familiar manageable units

Answer 18

chunking

Question 19

Memory aids: techniques that use vivid imagery + organizational devices

Answer 19

mnemonic devices

Question 20

organize words or concepts into hierarchical groups

Answer 20

hierarchies

Question 21

Distributed study or practice to yield better long term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice

Answer 21

spacing effect

Question 22

repeated self testing (distributed practice)

Answer 22

Testing effect

Question 23

Encoding on a basic level based on the structure or appearance of words

Answer 23

shallow processing

Question 24

encoding semantically based on the meaning of word tends to yield the best retention

Answer 24

deep processing

Question 25

Explicit memories

Answer 25

either sematic (facts and general knowledge) or episodic

Question 26

experienced events

Answer 26

episodic

Question 27

sending memories to their safe spots - happens during sleep

Answer 27

memory consolidation

Question 28

Clear sustained long term memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

Answer 28

flashbulb memory

Question 29

Putting yourself back in the context where you earlier experienced something

Answer 29

context dependent memory

Question 30

what we learning one physiological state; may be more easily recalled when we are again in that state

Answer 30

state dependent memory

Question 31

tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones current good or bad emotional state (mood)

Answer 31

mood congruent memory