Week 6/Chapter 6 Flashcards
Long-Term Memory
the system that is responsible for storing information for long periods of time.
Serial Position Curve
% of group of participants that recall each word vs its position in the list indicating memory is better for words at beginning of list and end than in the middle.
The Primacy Effect
Participants are more likely to remember words presented at the beginning of a sequence.
The Recency Effect
The better memory for the stimuli presented at the end of a sequence.
Coding
The from in which stimuli are presented.
Visual, auditory, semantic.
Proactive Interference
The decrease in memory that occurs when previously learned information interferes with learning new information.
Release from Proactive Interference
Increase in performance when presented with different information.
Recognition Memory
The identification of a stimulus that was encountered earlier. Different from recall.
Hippocampus
Holds the ability to form new LTM.
Mental Time Travel
The experience of traveling back in time to reconnect with events that happened in the past.
Autobiographical Memory
Memory for specific experiences from our life, which can include both episodic and semantic components.
Personal Semantic Memories
The semantic components of a description
Autobiographically Significant Semantic Memories
Semantic memories involving personal episodes.
Remember/Know Procedure
Method to help distinguish between episodic components and semantic components.
Semanticization of Remote Memories
Loss of episodic detail for memories of long-ago events.
Constructive Episodic Simulation Hypothesis
Episodic memories are extracted and recombined to construct simulations of future events.
Explicit Memories
Memories we are aware of.
Implicit Memories
Occurs when learning from experience is not accompanied by conscious remembering.
Procedural or Skill Memory
Memory for doing things that involve learned skills.
Expert-Induced Amnesia
The fact that well-learned procedural memories do not require attention.
Priming
When the presentation of one stimulus changes the way a person responds to another stimulus.
Priming & testing stimulus.
Repetition Priming
When the test stimulus is the same as or resembles the priming stimulus.
Propaganda Effect
Participants are more likely to rate statements that have read or heard before as being true, simply because they have been exposed to them before.
Anterograde Amnesia
Unable to form any new memories
