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Psych Unit 6A Vocab Fill In The Blanks

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In each blank, try to type in the word that is missing. If you've typed in the correct word, the blank will turn green.

If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed.

When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on.
Term: Definition: that persists over time
Term: RecallDefinition: information
Term: RecognitionDefinition: Identifying learned items
Term: EncodingDefinition: information into our brains
Term: StorageDefinition: information
Term: RetrievalDefinition: Get information back
Term: Three-stage model/multi-store modelDefinition: Memory consists of a sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term
Term: memoryDefinition: The representation of environments
Term: Short-term Definition: The recall of material after it is presented or during rehearsal of the material
Term: Maintenance Definition: Straight repeating of information to it
Term: rehearsalDefinition: Relates new concepts to old ones to help them
Term: Long-term Definition: Memory that involves the storage and recall of information over a long of time
Term: Working Definition: Active processing of sensory and long-term during short-term memory
Term: Central Definition: Responsible for focussed in working memory
Term: Visuospatial Definition: Our temporary ability to hold and spatial information
Term: Phonological Definition: The speech and sound-related component of working
Term: /declarative memoriesDefinition: Retention of stuff one can consciously know and
Term: processingDefinition: Encoding that requires and conscious effort
Term: Implicit/nondeclarative Definition: Retention of learned skills/associations independent of conscious
Term: Procedural Definition: A type of long-term, implicit involved in the knowledge of skills or how to do things
Term: processingDefinition: Unconscious encoding of incidental
Term: Prospective Definition: Remembering to carry out an at an appropriate moment
Term: Autobiographical Definition: Recollection of past a jawn has experienced
Term: memoryDefinition: A fleeting memory of visual stimuli
Term: Echoic Definition: A fleeting sensory memory of auditory
Term: ChunkingDefinition: Organizing items into familiar, manageable
Term: Definition: Memory aids, especially ones with imagery and organizational devices
Term: Method of Definition: Using of familiar spatial environments to recall stuff better
Term: CategoriesDefinition: Sets of objects in the
Term: HierarchiesDefinition: Broad concepts divided and subdivided into concepts
Term: Spacing effect: vs. distributed practiceDefinition: The tendency for distributed practice to yield better long-term retention than massed
Term: effectDefinition: Enhanced memory after retrieving, than rereading, information
Term: MetacognitionDefinition: The purposeful of one's own thought processes
Term: processingDefinition: Encoding on an level
Term: processingDefinition: Use of sounds to language
Term: Structural Definition: Remembering only the physical of a word
Term: Deep processing/semantic Definition: semantically (based on meaning)
Term: memoryDefinition: Memory of facts and general
Term: Episodic Definition: Memory of personally events
Term: Memory Definition: The process of turning -term memories to long-term ones
Term: Long-term Definition: An increase in a cell's firing potential after stimulation
Term: Retrieval Definition: assisting in memory retrieval
Term: Definition: jawns set for shit
Term: Context-dependent Definition: Needing for memory
Term: -dependent memoryDefinition: Needing a certain state for
Term: Mood-congruent Definition: Recalling experiences consistently with
Term: position effectDefinition: Recalling the first and last in a list
Term: Recency Definition: Recalling better because of recency
Term: Primacy Definition: Recalling jawns better because of their proximity to the beginning of
Term: amnesiaDefinition: An to form new memories
Term: amnesiaDefinition: An inability to information from one's past
Term: Alzheimer'sDefinition: A disease where loss of memory is a main
Term: Infantile Definition: Inability of to recollect early episodic memories
Term: failureDefinition: Occurs when information is insufficiently or inadequately
Term: forgetting curveDefinition: Learned information slips out of our memories over
Term: Tip-of-the-tongue Definition: When one can't recall a word but can words of similar form and meaning
Term: Proactive Definition: When old information with the learning of new information
Term: interferenceDefinition: When new information inhibits our ability to recall old
Term: EgoDefinition: 's "realistic" part of personality that was all about compromisation
Term: RepressionDefinition: Unconscious of unpleasant jawns from one's mind
Term: Misinformation Definition: A type of impairment caused by introduction fo misleading infromation
Term: Imagination Definition: A tendency to falsely remember that were imagined
Term: Source Definition: The inability to recall , when, or how one has learned knowledge that has been acquired and retained
 
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