Types of Memory
This type of memory is made up of general knowledge and facts.
What is semantic memory?
This type of retrieval involves identifying information from a set of choices.
What is recognition?
This concept says that most of our forgetting occurs shortly after learning and then stabilizes.
Remembering the first and last items in a list best describes this effect.
What is the serial positioning effect?
The idea that we forget things that are too painful or anxiety-inducing to remember
Repression
This type of long-term memory allows you to remember personal experiences.
What is episodic memory?
These enhance memory encoding; can be acronyms, songs, visualizations, etc.
Mnemonic devices
Old information making it harder to remember new information
proactive interference
The tendency to remember the first items in a list
What is the primacy effect?
the inability to recall memories from very early childhood
infantile amnesia
Muscle memory and skills, like riding a bike, rely on this type of memory.
What is procedural memory?
Grouping information into smaller, meaningful units
What is chunking?
New information makes it harder to recall old information.
What is retroactive interference?
The tendency to remember the last items in a list.
What is the recency effect?
**DOUBLE POINTS**
Information is more effectively stored in long-term memory by testing yourself on that information as opposed to just re-reading it.
The testing effect
This type of memory helps you remember to do things in the future, like taking medicine.
What is prospective memory?
These stimuli help access stored memories more easily.
What are retrieval cues?
Information received after an event can alter your memory of the event
The Misinformation Effect
This term describes our ability to hold and manipulate information in real time.
What is working memory?
This model says that memory has multiple places of storage: Sensory memory, short-term memory, long term memory
The Multi-store model
This type of memory is retrieved unconsciously and affects behavior without awareness
What is implicit memory?
This effect shows that spaced learning is more effective than cramming.
The Spacing Effect
The inability to make new memories
Anterograde amnesia
This concept says that memory retention is directly related to the depth of processing applied to information during encoding
Levels of Processing
This mnemonic device is also known as the "mind palace"
The Method of Loci