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Psych 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Recall | Type of memory retrieval in which the information to be retrieved must be pulled from memory with very few external cues |
| Recognition | The ability to match a piece of information or a stimulus to a stored image or fact |
| primary effect | Tendency to remember information at the beginning of a body of information better than the information at the end of it |
| Serial Position Effct | Tendency of information at the beginning and end of information better than the information that follows |
| Recency effect | Tendency to remember information at the end of a body of information better than the information at the beginning of it |
| false positive | error of recognition in which people think that they recognize some stimulus that is not actually in memory |
| Effortful encoding | Conscious process of entering information into LTM, often through elaborative rehersal |
| Automatic encoding | Automatic encoding Tendecny of certain kinds of information to enter LTM with little or no effortful encoding |
| Misinformation effect | The tendency of misleading information presented after an event to alter the memories of the event itself |
| Hindsight bias | The tendency to falsely believe through revision of older memories to include newer information that one could have correctly |
| memory trace | Physical change in the brain that occur when a memory is formed |
| Decay | Loss of memory due to the passage of time during which the memory trace is not used |
| Proactive interference | Memory retrieval problem that occurs when older information prevents or interferes with the retrieval of newer information |
| Retroactive interference | Memory retrieval problem that occurs when newer information prevents or interviews with the retrieval of older information |
| Retrograde amnesia | Loss of memory from the point of some injury or trauma backward, or loss of memory for the past |
| Anterograde amnesia | Loss of memory from the point of injury or trauma forward, or the inability to form new LTM |
| Infantile amnesia | The inability to retrieve memories from before age 3 |
| Autobiographical memory | The memory for events and facts related to ones personal life story |
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