Memory Processes
This process helps us get information into memory
What is encoding?
The greatest amount of time that information can be stored in short-term memory
What is 20-30 seconds?
Memory regarding personal experiences.
What is episodic memory?
Ebbinghaus's graphical representation of retention and forgetting over time
What is a forgetting curve?
Riding a bike is an example of this type of memory
What is procedural memory?
(or implicit/nondeclarative)
An encoding process that groups similar information into a single unit to increase capacity in short-term memory
What is chunking?
The assumed capacity of short-term memory
What is 7 items?
Psychologist known for their research on the misinformation effect
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
What is decay theory?
You are using this type of memory when you answer "who is the first president of the United States?"
What is semantic memory?
Repeating information in order to maximize short term memory.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
What is echoic sensory memory?
Proposed motivated forgetting, or repression, as an explanation for retrieval failures of unpleasant memories
Who is Sigmund Freud?
When you keep recalling your old phone number instead of your new phone number
What is proactive interference?
Another name for declarative memory
What is explicit memory?
When the successful retrieval of a memory depends on the environment where the memory was encoded
What is context-dependent memory?
Another name for short-term memory
What is working memory?
What we learn in one physiological state may be more easily recalled when we are again in that state.
What is state dependent learning?
Occurs when you have better recall for items at the BEGINNING of a list
What is the primacy effect?
A father's vivid recollection of the scene and his emotions when his daughter was born
What is a flashbulb memory?
Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is an example of this
What is a encoding failure?
A type of sensory memory specific to vision
What is iconic memory?
Inability to form new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Remembering the beginning and end of a list but not the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
The inability to remember where, when, and how previously learned information has been acquired.
What is source amnesia?