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PSYCH U2 PART 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Algorithm | a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem that guarantees a solution |
| Autobiographical memory | the memory for events and facts related to one's personal life story |
| Automatic processing | unconscious encoding of incidental information |
| Central executive | the part of working memory that directs attention and processing |
| Chunking | organizing items into familiar, manageable units |
| Echoic memory | a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli |
| Elaborative rehearsal | the linking of new information to material that is already known |
| Encoding | the processing of information so that it can be stored into memory |
| Encoding failure | failure to process info into memory |
| Forgetting curve | a graphic depiction of how recall steadily declines over time |
| Heuristics | shortcut strategies or guidelines that suggest a solution to a problem but do not guarantee an answer |
| Iconic memory | a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli |
| Imagination inflation | occurs when people increase their confidence that an event actually happened after imagining the details of the event |
| Infantile amnesia | he inability to remember events from before the age of three |
| Intuition | the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. |
| Long-term potentiation | gradual strengthening of the connections among neurons from repetitive stimulation |
| Maintenance rehearsal | practice of saying some information to be remembered over and over in one's head in order to maintain it in short-term memory |
| Memory consolidation | process that strengthens and stabilizes newly formed memories, making them more resistant to interference and easier to retrieve later |
| Mental set | a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past |
| Mnemonic devices | techniques for using associations to memorize and retrieve information |
| Method of loci | use of familiar locations as cues to recall items that have been associated with them |
| Multi-store model | explanation of memory based on three separate memory stores, and how information is transferred between these stores |
| Primacy effect | tendency to remember words at the beginning of a list |
| Procedural memory | a type of implicit memory that involves motor skills and behavioral habits |
| Prospective memory | remembering to do something in the future |
| Recall | process of retrieval of information from the past |
| Recency effect | tendency to remember words at the end of a list |
| Recognition | form of remembering characterized by a feeling of familiarity when something previously experienced is again encountered |
| Retrieval | the process of getting information out of memory storage |
| Schema | a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information |
| Sensory memory | the immediate, initial recording of sensory information in the memory system |
| Shallow encoding | occurs when we process information, like words, structurally, by the way they appear, or phonemically, by the way they sound |
| Source amnesia | faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined |
| Spacing effect | phenomenon that people can more easily remember information when it's spread out over time, rather than studied repeatedly in a short period |
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