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Psychology
Chap 6
| Constructive processing | Memory retrieval process or built |
| misinformation effect | The tendency of misleading information |
| Hindsight bias | The tendency to falsely believe through revision of old memories |
| False memory syndrome | The creation of an accurate or false memory |
| Recall | Memory retrieval in which the information to be retrieve must be pulled from the memory |
| Serial position effect | Information at the beginning and at the end of a body of information |
| Retrieval failure | Recall has failed |
| Primacy effect | The tendency to remember information at the beginning of the body |
| Recency effect | The tendency to remember information at the end of the body |
| Recognition | The ability to match a piece of information or stimulus to a stored image or fact |
| False positive | In error of recognition in which people think that they recognize a stimulus |
| Automatic encoding | Tendency of certain kinds of information to enter long-term memory |
| Flashbulb memories | Automatic encoding that occurs because an Unexpected event has strong emotional associations |
| Semantic memory | Declaritive memory containing general knowledge |
| Episodic memory | Declarative memory containing personal information not readily available to others |
| Encoding specificity | To remember information to be improved of retrieval conditions |
| Two kinds of retrieval memories | Recall and recognition |
| Retro grade amnesia | Backwards |
| Anterograde amnesia | Loss of memory from the point of injury or trauma forward |
| Memory trace | Physical change in the brain that occurs when a memory is formed |
| Proactive interference | Older information prevents interferes |
| Retroactive interference | Newer information |
| STM | Lasts for 12-30 seconds/ susceptible to interference |
| LTM | information that is placed to be kept more or less permanently |
| Chunking | Bits of information |
| Procedural memory | Often called nine decorative or implicit memory all things people can do |
| Nondecorative implicit memory | Long term memory including skills procedures habits and conditioned responses |
| Declaritive explicit memory | All things that people know |
| Sensory memory | The very first stage of memory |
| Iconic memory | Visual sensory memory last only a fraction of a second |
| Echoic memory | Brief memory of something a person has just heard |
| Digit span test | The series of numbers is read to people to recall the numbers in order |
| Storage | Holding onto information for some period of time |
| Retrieval | Getting information out of storage |
| 3 processes of memory | Encoding storage and retrieval |
| Memory | In active system that receives information from the senses |
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