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Psychology Ch 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Source Amnesia | wrong source if an experienced event or incorrectly saying something from a source |
| Mood-Congruent Memory | remembering things similar to the what you're feeling |
| Implicit Memory | independent retention and conscious recollection it is the nondeclarative memory and it is knowing how to do something |
| Amnesia | memory loss |
| Explicit Memory | memory of facts and experiences it is the declarative memory |
| Hippocampus | neural center in the limbic system that helps create memories |
| Memory | persistent learning over time and the storage and retrieval of information |
| Effortful Processing | requires consciousness and attentions |
| Encoding | processing information |
| Automatic Processing | unconscious adding of information including space, time, and frquency |
| Long-term Memory | almost permanent storage that is limitless and stores knowledge, skills, and experience |
| Rehearsal | repeating information to remember it better |
| Mneumonics | memory aids that are usually acronyms |
| Chunking | grouping into understandable categories |
| Flashbulb Memory | clear memory of a tragic or life changing event it is a vivid memory |
| Sensory Memory | immediate and short-term memory |
| Working Memory | newer comprehension of a short-term memory by relating it to long-term memory and it is conscious, active processing |
| Visual Encoding | understanding and processing pictures |
| Storage | place where information is kept over time |
| Acoustic Encoding | understanding and processing sounds |
| Long-term Potentiation | increase in synapse firing potential with rapid stimulation |
| Spacing Effect | studying a little at a time that leads to better retention |
| Misinformation Effect | distorted information stored of an event |
| Proactive Interference | old information disrupts recalling new information |
| Retroactive Interference | new information messes up recalling old information |
| One Sin of Intrusion | persistence which is unwanted memories constantly bothering |
| Priming | activation that is mainly unconscious ti retrieve a specific memory |
| Deja Vu | weird feeling that you have done something before and it is believed that it is subconscious cues that may retrieve earlier experiences |
| Three Sins of Distortion | misattribution, suggestibility, and bias |
| Relearning | measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning something again |
| Iconic Memory | momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli |
| Three Sins of Forgetting | absentmindedness, transience, blocking |
| Recall | retrieving information you learned earlier |
| Repression | in psychoanalytic theory when it is a basic defense mechanism to erase harmful memories |
| Recognition | measure of memory and noticing a familiar thing |
| Serial Positioning Effect | retaining the information that is first and last the best |
| Imagery | mental pictures |
| Short-term Memory | holds a few things at a time |
| Semantic Encoding | processing meaning |
| Retrieval | getting information out of storage |
| Echoic Memory | short-term memory of something you have heard only lasting a few seconds |
| Bower | hierarchies and chunking |
| Atkinson and Shriffin | 3 stages sensory, short-term, long-term |
| Jenkins and Dollenbach | memory and sleep |
| Sperling | iconic memory |
| Roediger Mc Dermott | false memories and persistence |
| Poole and Lindsay | source amnesia with M. Science |
| Freud | repression of painful memories |
| George Miller | magical number 7 in which sort-term memory can only retain 7 plus or minus 2 |
| Ebbinghaus | effortful processing by rehearsing nonsense syllables |
| Bahrick | graduation photos by recognizing but not recalling |
| Loftus and paler | analyzed vivid memories with misinformation car crash |
| Schacter | 7 sins of memory |
| Golden and Baddely | memory on land and water |
| Lashley | took chinks of rat brain to see if they still had memory |