Vocabulary
Learning that persists over time
Tested the concept of relearning by testing individuals with nonsense syllabus retention.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
An inability to form new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia.
What is the hippocampus?
Activated memory holding a few items briefly before information is stored or forgotten.
What is short-term memory?
What is Long-term potentiation (LTP)?
Individual that argued that we repress painful or unacceptable memories.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The term for people who can remember all aspects of their day.
What is super memory?
The brain structure that retains implicit memories.
What is the cerebellum?
The unconscious encoding of incidental information.
What is Automatic processing.
The activation of certain associations.
Hint: Often occurs unconsciously
What is priming?
Psychologist that proved we often replace original memories with false memories.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
What is retroactive interference?
A long-term potentiation (LTP) enhancing neurotransmitters.
What is glutamate.
A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli while one’s attention is not directly on the sound.
What is Echoic memory?
What is the serial position effect?
Psychologists that observed synaptic changes during learning in the neurons of Aplysia (Sea Slugs).
Who are Eric Kandel and James Schwartz?
The psychologist that created a chart demonstrating the chart of forgetting which consists of a sharp drop at first followed by a leveling off.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
The brain structure that facilitates the formation of procedural memories for skills.
What is the Basal Ganglia.
The two categories that explicit memories fall into.
What are semantic and episodic?
The idea that cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping us recall it.
Psychologists that studied short term memory by asking individuals to remember 3 consonant groups.
Who are Lloyd Peterson and Margaret Peterson?
The term for when an individual increases their confidence that an event actually happened after imagining the details of said event.
What is imagination inflation.
The brain structure where flashbulb memories occur in.
What is the amygdala?
The type of practice that “cramming” is known as.
What is Massed practice?