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Psychology Ch 8

TermDefinition
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
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