I Forgot!
The inability to form new memories.
Anterograde Amnesia
Occurs when a memory has been corrupted by misleading information.
Misinformation Effect
A neurodegenerative disease where plaque builds up on the brain, causing the death of neural networks and neurons. Typically originates in hippocampus or basal ganglia, but this is not exclusive.
Alzheimer's
I am thinking! About my thinking?
Metacognition
This is used by researchers to create a measurable and thorough measurement system of their variables. It allows for retesting by others later.
You have seen something, but not all of the stimuli are encoded and stored for later retrieval.
Encoding Failure (Failure at Encoding)
Mixing the study of different topics for better encoding and long-term memory.
Interleaving
If this part of the brain is damaged, there may be difficulties with memory, understanding language, recognizing objects, experiencing emotions, and potentially causing seizures
Temporal Lobe
A toddler only recognizes a specific dog. It has fur, fluffly ears, and has four legs. What is this known as to them?
A branch of psychology where they focus on people's thoughts, memories, and intelligence. Often looking at the causes, effects, and implications of all three.
Cognitive Psychology
DOUBLE POINTS!
Can’t remember information from the past.
Retrograde Amnesia
You are more likely to remember the first and last items on a given list.
Serial Position Effect
Plays a key role in the formation and retrieval of procedural memory, helping with the learning of motor skills and habits.
Basal Ganglia
Shh! I am THINKING! I am narrowing down my options so that I can find the solution!
Convergent Thinking
This measurement tells researchers how far measured variables or values are from the mean.
Standard Deviation
You can’t remember new things, because of the old things you’ve already learned.
Proactive Interference
A type of memory triggered by a current mood's similar emotion of a previous stimulus.
State Dependent Memory
Crucial for the formation and consolidation of new declarative memories, particularly those related to facts and events.
Hippocampus
I am using the same method to solve a problem, because it worked last time.
Mental Set
A study that looks to identify relationships between two variables.
Correlational
A theory that we forget because of traumatic events and a survival response to these by our brain. Believed to be able to be retrieved through psychoanalysis.
Repression
Includes effortful and automatic processing of memories.
DOUBLE POINTS!
What type of scan would be used to assess a patient with dementia or Alzheimer's to look for brain atrophy (degeneration of cells).
MRI
Atkinson and Shiffrin's Diagram of how memory is encoded, stored, and retrieved. It includes Short-Term, Long-Term, and Sensory Memory.
The Multi-Store Model
The comparison of multiple research studies and their findings. Researchers create a way to separate the previous data and calculate new.
Meta-analysis