Memory (General)
STM
LTM
Forgetting (P1)
Forgetting (P2)
100

The processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information

What is memory?

100

Holds the information that we are currently working on or thinking about

What is STM?

100
Has unlimited capacity and a long duration

What is LTM?

100

The three types are retrograde, anterograde, and infantile

What is amnesia?

100

Blocking the recall of anxiety arousing memories

What is motivated forgetting?
200

The three steps are: encode, store, retrieve

What is the Information Processing Model?

200
Combining individual items into larger units of meaning

What is chunking?

200

The effect whereby recall is influenced by a word's position in a series of items

What is the serial position effect?

200

Memory loss for events after the onset of amnesia

What is anterograde amnesia?

200

Remembering to do things or perform an activity in the future

What is Prospective Memory?

300

Includes: iconic, echoic, and hepatic memory

What is Sensory Memory?

300

The process of representing sounds as a code

phonological encoding

300

superior recall of early words (it is likely the STM is able to enter this into LTM)

What is the primacy effect?
300

Memory loss for events prior to the onset of amnesia

What is retrograde amnesia?

300

The distortion of a memory by misleading post-event information

What is The Misinformation Effect?
400

This model includes: sensory memory, STM, LTM

What is Three Component Model?

400

The process of representing the meaning of the stimulus as a code

semantic encoding

400

Superior recall of most recent words (probably due to rehearsal in the STM)

What is the recency effect?

400

The reason that people typically don't have memories of events occurring before age 4

What is infantile amnesia?

400

Past learned material interferes with new material

What is Proactive Interference?

500

Proposed the Three Component Model

Who are Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968)?

500

What people can do once information leaves our sensory memory so that it can be retained

What are mental representations (memory codes)?
500

A type of rehearsal where you focus on the meaning of information or relate it to other knowledge

What is elaborative rehearsal?

500
The tendency to recall or recognize something as familiar but to forget where we encountered it

What is source confusion?

500

Newly acquired information interferes with old information

What is Retroactive Interference?

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