Memory Processes
Memory Stores
Key People
I Forgot!
Memory Types
100

This process helps us get information into memory

What is encoding?

100

Brief flashes of visual or auditory memory that last for less than half a second

What is sensory memory?

100

Patient who experienced anterograde amnesia after the remova of hippocampus and other temporal lobe structures

Who is H.M.?

100

Ability to remember something based on looking at it (humans are better at this than recall or relearning)

What is recognition?

100

Riding a bike is an example of this type of memory

What is procedural memory?

(or implicit/nondeclarative)

200

An encoding process that groups similar information into a single unit to increase capacity in short-term memory

What is chunking?

200

The assumed capacity of short-term memory according to Miller's Law

What is 7+ or - 2

200

Psychologist known for their research on the misinformation effect

Who is Elizabeth Loftus?

200

Occurs when you have better recall for items at the BEGINNING of a list

What is the primacy effect?

200

You are using this type of memory when you answer "who is the first president of the United States?"

What is semantic memory?

300

This is essential to moving information from sensory memory to short-term memory

What is attention?

300

An unlimited capacity store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time

What is long-term memory?

300

Proposed motivated forgetting, or repression, as an explanation for retrieval failures of unpleasant memories

Who is Sigmund Freud?

300

Your "save as" button

What is the hippocampus?

300

Another name for declarative memory

What is explicit memory?

400

When the successful retrieval of a memory depends on the environment where the memory was encoded

What is context-dependent memory?

400

Another name for short-term memory

What is working memory?

400
Studied patterns of forgetting overtime

Who was Hermann Ebbinghaus?

400

Forgetting what happened before an accident or event

What is retrograde amnesia?

400

A father's vivid recollection of the scene and his emotions when his daughter was born

What is a flashbulb memory?

500

Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon is an example of this

What is a retrieval failure?

500
Person who came up with iconic memory experiment

Who is George Sperling?

500

Studied capacity of sensory memory

Who was George Sperling?

500

When you keep recalling your old phone number instead of your new phone number

What is proactive interference?

500
Name for memory model that includes sensory, STM, and LTM

What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory?

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