Vocab Unit 6

Question 1

Loss of memory from the point of injury or trauma forward or the inability to form new long-term memories

Answer 1

Anterograde amnesia

Question 2

Loss of memory due to the passage of time during which the memory trace is not used

Answer 2

Decay

Question 3

Type of long term memory containing information that is conscious and known

Answer 3

Declarative memory

Question 4

The brief memory of something a person has just heard

Answer 4

Echoic memory

Question 5

The ability to access a visual memory for 30 seconds or more

Answer 5

eidetic imagery

Question 6

And type of declarative memory containing personal information not readily available to others

Answer 6

Episodic memory

Question 7

Memory that is consciously know

Answer 7

Explicit memory

Question 8

And type of automatic because encoding that occurs because an unexpected event has strong emotional associations in for the personAnd remembering it

Answer 8

Flashbulb memory

Question 9

Visual sensory memory

Answer 9

Iconic memory

Question 10

A method of transferring information from short term memory to long term memory by making that information meaningful in someway

Answer 10

Elaborative rehearsal

Question 11

The inability to achieve memories from 2 to 6 years old

Answer 11

Infantile amnesia

Question 12

Practice of saying information to be remembered over and over in one’s head and order to maintain short term memory

Answer 12

MainTenants rehearsal

Question 13

An active system that receives information from the senses put that away into usable form organize it then retrievesThe information from storage

Answer 13

Memory

Question 14

Tendency to remember information at the beginning of a body of information better than the information it follows

Answer 14

Primary effects

Question 15

Memory problem that occurs when older information prevents or interferes with the learning or retrieval of new information

Answer 15

Proactive interference

Question 16

Tendency to remember information at the end of a body information

Answer 16

Recency effect

Question 17

Hey stimulus for remembering

Answer 17

Retrieval cue

Question 18

Memory retrieval problem that occurs when newer information prevents or interferes with the retrieval of older memories

Answer 18

Retroactive interference

Question 19

Loss of memory from the point. I have some injury or trauma backwards or loss of memory from the past

Answer 19

Retro grade Amnesia

Question 20

Type of declarative memory containing general knowledge such as knowledge of language and information learned in formal education

Answer 20

Somaticmemory

Question 21

The very first stage of memory the point at which information enters the nervous system through the sensory systems

Answer 21

Sensory memory

Question 22

The tendency of information at the beginning and end of a body of information to be remembered more accurate accurately then the information in the middle

Answer 22

Serial position effect

Question 23

The memory system in which the information is held for brief periods of time while being uses

Answer 23

Short term memory