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psych midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "method of loci" | they imagied themselves moving through a familiar series of locations, associating each place with a visual representation of the to-be topic. |
| iconic memory | a momentary senrory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second |
| hippocampus | a neural center located in th elimbic system that helps procss explicit memories for storage |
| priming | the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in the memory |
| george sperling experiment | he flashed letters and then had people repeat them. |
| hierarchial organization | organizng inforamtion into topics and subtopics to help remember |