Encoding memories
This type of practice helps with recall over a period of time.
What is distributed practice?
The immediate memory of sensory info that just occurred to you
The phenomenon of the inability to remember events from when you were an infant.
What is infantile amnesia?
Memories are retrieved in 3 main ways.
What is Recall Recognition, and Relearning?
the persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information information.
What is memory?
a cognitive bias that describes the tendency to remember the first things presented in a list.
What is Primacy effect?
this form of memory is limitless and permanent
What is Long-term memory?
This type of memory impairment hinders the ability to recall information from the past.
What is Retrograde Amnesia?
This describes the activated associations in our brain.
What is Priming?
The repetition of information to recall it for a short amount of time.
What is maintenance retrieval?
Psychological phenomenon where participants often struggle to remember items in the middle of a sequence due to interference.
what is serial position effect?
Age and other factors can impact this Memory, and it is not limitless.
What is working memory?
This patient had an injury to his brain which caused him to get a condition where he couldn't develop any new memories beyond the day he got this condition.
What is anterograde amnesia?
In Mood Congruent, these act as aids for memory recall.
What is retrieval cues?
Because of this memory type, a person who got bit by a dog at a young age may tense up after seeing a dog later in life.
What is Classically conditioned associations?
Duck, eagle, blue-jay, sparrow,
boulder, pizza, man, swear,
Participant are more likely to remember the words of the top list because of this encoding technique.
What is Chunking?
This memory is associated with the Magic Number 7.
What is Short term memory?
This type of processing stays intact even after develop of any kind of amnesia or other impairments to memory.
What is Automatic Processing?
Johnny scores better on tests when he sits in the same seat, vs when he sits in others seats. This psychological concept explains this phenomenon.
What is Context dependent cues?
This form of memory describes the ability to recall about you own life.
What is Autobiographical memory?
"one is a bun, two is a shoe, three is a tree, four is door..." this mnemonic device helps harnesses our visual superiority
What is peg-ward system
New explicit memories are more readily stored when fit into these existing frameworks.
What is Schemas?
Drugs used for this disease boost glutamate production and CREP in the body.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
Antonia is testing herself on things she learned in class. She is aware of the testing effect, and uses that thought process to learn. She is using this retrieval strategy along with the testing effect.
What is Meta-cognition?
When Ms. Sullivan refers to the chart on memory impairments, I realize it is on the middle of the page. This is an example of this type of automatic encoding.
What is Space?