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Memory
Psychology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acoustic codes | the process of remembering and comprehending something that you hear(repetition of words or putting information into a song or rhythm) |
| Amnesia | is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, drug use, disease, or psychological trauma |
| Amygdala | responsible for emotions, survival instincts, and memory |
| Anterograde Amnesia | prevents memory from being formed after event |
| Chunking | grouping info |
| Confabulation | brain makes up info to fill gaps |
| Decay | fading of memories |
| Declarative Memory | memories that can be consciously retrieved |
| Distributed Practice | strategy of learning that makes use of smaller increments of study and practice over a longer period of time |
| Echoic Memory | retrieving info from what you hear, 1-2 secs |
| Eidetic Memory | recall visual info after seeing it for a short time |
| Elaborative Rehearsal | linking new info to something you already know |
| Elizabeth Loftus | famous memory researcher who specializes in creating false memories |
| Encoding | the learning of info from our environment |
| Episodic Memory | memory of events in our life |
| Flashbulb Memory | vivid memories of first time hearing shocking event |
| George Miller | had theories on STM |
| H.M. | patient who got hippocampus removed to stop seizures, can’t store new info |
| Hippocampus | part of brain associated with memory |
| Iconic Memory | retrieving info visually, less than 1 sec |
| Infant Amnesia | refers to the difficulty or inability that adults have in remembering detailed or episodic memories from early childhood, generally prior to age 3 or 4 |
| Interference | new memory blocks or erases existing memory |
| Long-Term Memory | memory can last a lifetime |
| Maintenance Rehearsal | repeating info |
| Mnemonic device | tool used to make associations and improve memory |
| Primacy | remember info best from beginning |
| Procedural Memory | memory of skills |
| Prosopagnosia | disorder of not being able to recognize faces |
| Recall | trying to remember info off the top of your head(ex.essay tests) |
| Recency | remember info best from the ned |
| Recognition | identifying if a piece of info is familiar(ex.multiple choice tests) |
| Reconstructive Memory | we construct memories based on what we already know |
| Relearning | way of measuring retention by measuring how much faster one relearns material that has been previously learned and then forgotten |
| Repression | pushing memories deep inside the mind |
| Retrieval | calling up stored information so that it can be used |
| Retrograde Amnesia | loss of memories before event |
| Semantic codes | meaning of something |
| Semantic memory | memory of facts as language |
| Short-Term Memory | can hold 5-9 pieces of info, less than 30 secs |
| State-Dependent Learning | remember information better if we are in the same physical or emotional condition |
| Storage | holding info over time |
| Stratium | voluntary movement |
| Tachistoscope | an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed. |
| Visual Codes | process of encoding images and visual sensory information |
| Working Memory | a system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. |
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