Voc 2.6a
This is often called the "wakening of associations"
What is priming?
The ability to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current mood, good or bad.
What is mood-congruent memory?
This is the eerie sense that you have experience an event before by having cues from the current situation.
What is deja vu?
–This happens when new information disrupts recall of old information.
What is retroactive interference?
These are like passwords that open memories.
What are retrieval cues?
The ability to retrieve memories from our past.
What is retrospective memory?
This happens when old memories make it hard to learn or remember new ones.
What is proactive interference?
A controversial idea suggests that our mind unconsciously pushes away memories that are too stressful or traumatic.
What is repression?
When you recall the first items in a list after a delay.
What is a primacy effect?
Being able to retrieve information based on being in the same environment in which you learning the items.
What is context-dependent memory?
A type of memory loss where a person is unable to recall events that occurred before a specific point in time, such as a traumatic brain injury or other medical event.
What is retrograde amnesia?
A phenomenon in psychology where a person's memory of an event is altered by exposure to false or misleading information after the event has occurred.
What is misinformation effect?
A retrieval practice strategy that involves mixing the study of different topics.
What is interleaving?
A retrieval practice that requires a person to monitor and evaluate their own learning.
What is metacognition?
When learning a new task is made easier or improves as a result of knowledge or skills learned from a different, but related, previous task.
What is positive transfer?
A process in which memories are reactivated and become temporarily unstable, making them susceptible to modification
What is memory reconsoliation?
When a person briefly recalls the last items quickly and well, but after a delay they start recalling the first items in the list.
What is serial position effect?
The idea that cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping us recall it.
What is encoding specific principle?
Where the act of imagining an event, especially repeatedly, increases a person's subjective confidence that the event actually happened, leading to a false memory
What is the imagination inflation effect?
A process of forgetting where memories gradually fade and weaken over time due to disuse and the natural deterioration of memory traces in the brain.
What is storage decay?