General
What is a flashbulb memory?
Clear recollection of an important event
What is retroactive interference?
information learned more recently hinders the recall of older information
What is chunking?
Organizing information into manageable bits (or... chunks...)
What was the video of the basketballs and the gorilla proving?
5-9
What traits are associated with someone with superior autobiographical memory?
Organized, neat, and repetitive behaviors
What is proactive interference?
old information hinders the recall of newly learned information
What is a retrieval cue?
External stimulus that helps recall memory
What effect Loftus and Palmer's study demonstrate?
What is encoding?
input of information into the memory system
What is procedural memory?
Long-term memory for making skilled actions (playing the piano, knitting, etc.)
Describe retrograde amnesia
Inability to recall memories before an accident
What is the spacing effect?
Learning is more effective when sessions are spread out
Describe Clive Wearing's and what could he remember?
Playing the piano, walking, writing, his wife,(procedural memory)
What part of the brain retrieves memories?
Right frontal lobe/prefrontal cortex
What is reminiscence bump?
Adults over 40 to have enhanced recollection for events that occurred during their adolescence and early adulthood
Describe anterograde amnesia
Inability to form new memories after an accident
What is the serial positioning effect?
tendency to recall the first and last units best, and middle units the worst
What was Harry Bahrick's research and what did it conclude?
Forgetting curve (when we don't use information, we lose a lot of info quickly, and then levels out)
What part of the brain is responsible for emotional memory?
What is episodic memory?
Memory that contains information about events we have personally experienced
What is superior autobiographical memory?
When a person can rememebr minute details about their entire life
What is the best way to remember lists of words?
Self-reference
What parts of the brain are larger when you have a superior autobiographical memory?
Temporal lobe and caudate nucleus