Kinds of Memory
Information Processing
Stages of Memory
Terms
Terms Continued
100
Also known as declarative memory; memory of specific information
What is Explicit memory?
100
Mental representation of information as a picture
What are visual codes?
100
First memory encountered by a stimulus
What is sensory memory?
100
Tendency to recall the 1st items in a series more accurately
What is primacy effect?
100
The tendency to remember information better in the context in which it was encoded or stored
What is context dependent memory?
200
This kind of memory involves remembering to do things in the future
What is Prospective memory?
200
Maintaining information over time
What is storage?
200
Also called working memory; holds info. for a minute or so before it decays
What is STM?
200
To cause information to be lost from STM by adding new information
What is displacement?
200
New learning interferes with retrieval of old learning
What is retroactive interference?
300
This kind of memory involves habits and the effects of conditioning
What is Implicit or nondeclarative memory?
300
The best way to store memories
What is elaborative rehearsal?
300
The sensory register that briefly holds mental representations of auditory stimuli
What is echoic memory?
300
The "magic number"
What is 7 plus or minus 1 or 2?
300
Failure to remember events occurring after physical trauma because of the effects of the trauma
What is anterograde amnesia?
400
This is a part of explicit memory, and involves memories of things that happen to us
What is Episodic memory?
400
Changing information so that we can place it in memory
What is encoding?
400
This is a vast storehouse of information that cannot be deleted or destroyed
What is LTM?
400
A memory that we tend to remember because it is surprising, important, and emotionally stirring
What is a flashbulb memory?
400
The inability to recall events that occurred prior to age 2-3
What is infantile amnesia?
500
This is the part of explicit memory that deals with general knowledge or meanings
What is semantic memory?
500
Locating information and returning it to consciousness
What is retrieval?
500
"Photographic memory"
What is eidetic imagery?
500
Sometimes occurs when we are in a context similar to one we have been in before
What is deja vu?
500
The feeling that you know a word but cannot quite retrieve it
What is tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
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