Changes in Memory
What is the term for vivid and detailed memories of learning about significant or shocking events?
What are flashbulb memories?
What is the mental representation of a category or class of objects?
What is a concept?
What is the process of using imagery to associate items to be remembered with concrete objects or places?
What is the pegword technique or the method of loci?
Which hypothesis suggests that rehearsing and sharing life events strengthens their memory?
What is the narrative rehearsal hypothesis?
What is the ability to focus on one message while ignoring others?
What is selective attention?
What phenomenon explains enhanced memory for events from adolescence and young adulthood?
What is the reminiscence bump?
What idea suggests that category members are similar to an idealized "average" member of the category?
What is the prototype theory?
What is the sensory impression that occurs when a person "sees" something in their mind that isn't physically present?
What is visual imagery?
What term describes the influence of pre-existing knowledge and expectations on the constructive nature of memory?
What are schemas?
What is the process by which people perceive individual words in a continuous flow of speech?
What is speech segmentation?
What term describes the idea that memories are influenced by pre-existing knowledge and expectations?
What is the constructive nature of memory?
What term describes the idea that things in a particular category are similar in a number of ways?
What is family resemblance?
What technique measures how long it takes people to perform mental tasks involving visualizing objects?
What is mental chronometry?
What is the term for the idea that things in the same category share overlapping features, but not all members have all features?
What is family resemblance?
What principle explains why people perceive two objects that overlap as a single, uninterrupted object?
What is the principle of good continuation?
Which hypothesis suggests that some memories are better remembered because they are rehearsed repeatedly?
What is the narrative rehearsal hypothesis?
Which hypothesis explains how sensory and motor processes contribute to knowledge representation?
What is the embodied approach?
Name the process where individuals visualize scanning a mental image to determine relationships or details.
What is mental scanning?
What hypothesis suggests that sensory and motor processes underlie our understanding of concepts?
What is the embodied approach?
Which memory effect suggests recall improves when studying sessions are spaced out over time?
What is the spacing effect?
Name the brain structure involved in processing emotional aspects of memory, such as events with strong emotional significance.
What is the amygdala?
What term refers to neural circuits in the brain that are specialized for processing specific groups of objects, such as faces or tools?
What is the semantic category approach?
Which type of imagery focuses on spatial relationships rather than visual appearance?
What is spatial imagery?
What is the term for the ability to judge typical members of a category faster than unusual members?
What is typicality?
Which theory suggests that knowledge about a category is distributed across multiple areas of the brain?
What is the hub-and-spoke model?