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AP Psych Ch. 9 Vocab
Memory - AP Psychology, Chapter 9
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Spacing effect | The tendency for distributed study or practice to produce better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice |
| Ebbinghaus's retention curve | The more time we spend learning new information, the more we retain |
| Serial position effect | The tendency to best recall the first and last items in a list |
| Long-term potentiation (LTP) | After brief, rapid stimulation the sending neuron needs less prompting to release the neurotransmitter and the receiving neuron's receptor sites may increase |
| Role of hippocampus in memory | Temporarily stores new information, then sends it to the cortex |
| Role of cerebellum in memory | Participates in the conscious retrieval of episodic memory |
| Relearning | The process of learning again something that was forgotten, usually happens more quickly than the initial learning |
| Mood-congruent memory | The tendency to recall experiences through the lens of one's current mood - when happy, past experiences are more likely to be seen as positive |
| Proactive inference | When something learned earlier interferes with memory of something learned later (ex: when you get a new passcode and you keep typing in your old one) |
| Retroactive interference | When new information makes it harder to recall something learned earlier (ex: when teachers learn new students' names it disrupts their ability to remember the old ones) |
| Misinformation effect | After being exposed to misinformation, people will misremember an event (and memories become more susceptible to this effect as they fade) |
| Source amnesia/misdistribution effect | Attributing the wrong source to an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined (while retaining the details of the memory) |
| Encoding | Putting information into the memory system |
| Elaboration | Linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding |
| Storage | Retaining coded information over time |
| Retrieval | Getting information out of memory storage |
| Eidetic memory | The ability to remember visual information with great accuracy after short-term exposure |
| Chunking | Grouping information into smaller, more meaningful units (ex: grouping the digits of phone numbers) |
| Maintenance rehearsal | Mentally repeating new information to remember it (works in the short term, but not the long term) |
| Elaborate rehearsal | Connecting new information to old information (helps store memories in the long term) |
| Procedural memory | Memory of learned skills that don't require conscious recollection (ex: motor skills like walking) |
| Declarative memory | Memories that are consciously recalled (ex: facts, past experiences) |
| Episodic memory | Type of declarative memory that includes autobiographical experiences |
| Semantic memory | Type of declarative memory that includes general world knowledge that we have accumulated (ex: knowing that grass is green, understanding how to form sentences) as well as facts and information |
| Anterograde amnesia | Loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused amnesia |
| Retrograde amnesia | Loss of the ability to access memories from before the event that caused amnesia |
| Flashbulb memory | A clear memory of an emotionally significant event |
| Implicit memory | Learning HOW to do something, can be independent of conscious recollection (procedural memory) |
| Explicit memory | The ability to declare THAT you know something, the memory of facts and experiences that you consciously know (declarative memory) |
| Retrieval cues | Stimuli that help you recall a specific memory (ex: mnemonic devices, associations from when we encoded the memory) |
| Priming | The activation of associations between memories |
| Recall vs. recognition | Recognition is the ability to understand what a stimulus is and doesn't require depth of processing, while recall involves drawing something out of long-term memory |
| Tip of the tongue (TOT) phenomenon | The inability to recall a word, while knowing it exists in your memory |
| Method of loci | A memory technique that uses visualization to organize/recall memories - you create a scene in your mind, then "walk" through it to recall |
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