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Vocab IX
Memory
Question | Answer |
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Memory | The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information |
Flashbulb Memory | A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event |
Encoding | The processing of information into the memory system by extracting meaning |
Storage | The retention of encoded information over time |
Retrieval | The process of getting information out of memory storage |
Sensory Memory | The immediate, initial recording of sensory information in the memory system |
Short Term Memory | Activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing |
Long Term Memory | The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system |
Automatic Processing | Unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time and frequency, and of well learned information, such as word meanings |
Effortful Processing | Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort |
Rehearsal | The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage |
Spacing Effect | The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice |
Serial Position Effect | Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list |
Visual Encoding | The encoding of picture images |
Acoustic Encoding | The encoding of sound, especially the sound of words |
Semantic Encoding | The encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words |
Imagery | Mental pictures; a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with semantic encoding |
Mnemonics | Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices |
Chunking | Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically |
Ionic Memory | A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second |
Echoic Memory | A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds |
Long Term Potentiation (LTP) | An increase in a synapse’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation |
Amnesia | The loss of memory |
Implicit Memory | Retention independent of conscious recollection. Also called procedural memory |
Explicit Memory | Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and “declare”; Also called declarative memory |
Hippocampus | A neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage |
Recall | A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill in the blank test |
Recognition | A measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple choice test |
Relearning | A memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time |
Priming | The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory Déjà vu |
Mood Congruent Memory | The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one’s current good or bad mood |
Proactive Interference | The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information |
Retroactive Inference | The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information |
Repression | In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories |
Misinformation Effect | Incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event |
Source Amnesia | Attributing to the wrong source an event that we have experienced, hear about, read about, or imagined |