Memories and Cognition
The ability to store and retrieve information over time...
What is Memory
The place where small amounts of information can be kept for more than a few seconds, but less than one minute...
What is short-term memory
When we continue to learn even after we think we know the information perfectly...this is...
What is overlearning
The tendency for people to be too certain about their ability to remember events and make judgements...this is also common in eyewitnesses to crimes...
What is overconfidence
The University Prof. Englund attended for undergrad and grad school...
What is Central Washington University
The process of acquiring and using knowledge...
What is cognition
Visual sensory memory, duration is less than one second...AND....auditory sensory memory, duration is several sections
What are iconic AND echoic memory
The process of reactivating information that has been stored in memory...
Errors in memory that occur when new information influences existing memories...
What is the misinformation effect
One of the most important neurotransmitters in memory...secreted during stress...may aid memory...
What is glutamate
The cognitive approach which became dominant in psychology in the 1960s was fueled by the creation of...
Encoding, storage, and retrieval are all considered...
Material is better remembered if it is linked to thoughts about the self...this is...
What is the self-reference effect
The tendency to verify and confirm our existing memories rather than to challenge and disconfirm them...this is...
What is confirmation bias
Prof. Englund's favorite area of study in the psychology field...
This type of memory requires conscious awareness...
What is explicit memory
Repeating information mentally or out loud with the goal of keeping it in memory...this is...
What is maintenance rehearsal
Patterns of knowledge in long-term memory that help us organize information
What are schemas
The tendency to think about and experience events according to "what might have been"...this is....
What is counterfactual thinking
Why did Prof. Englund go to prison?
What was for a field trip
The brief storage of sensory information, giving the brain time to process incoming sensations is...
What is sensory memory
This measure involves bringing previously learned material from memory...this may be used through an in class essay...
What is recall
People better retrieve items at the beginning and end of a list than items in the middle...this is called...
What is the serial position effect
When we base judgements on information that seems to match our expectations, and ignore potentially more relevant statistical information...this is called...
What is representativeness
The inability to retrieve events that occurred before a given time
What is retrograde amnesia