Disease/Disorder
Phenomenon
Validity vs Reliability
Memory
Miscellaneous
100

The inability to remember events from when you were a baby.


Infantile Amnesia

100

Almost Remembered: Inability to recall information that you may feel is just out of reach.

Tip-Of-The-Tongue Phenomenon

100

Accuracy Of Measurement: The extent to which a test measures or predicts what is supposed.

Validity

100

Life Episodes: The collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place.

Episodic Memory

100

Information Keeper: The Retention of encoded information over time.

Storage.

200

Progressive memory loss: Gradual loss of memory, reasoning, language, and physical functioning.

Alzheimer's Disease.

200

Altered Memory: including misleading information into your memory of an event.

Misinformation Effect.

200

Consistency of Scores: The extent to which a test yields consistent results  on alternate forms or on retesting.

Reliability

200

Conscious Memory: Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare.

Explicit Memory

200

Cramming: Cramming information all at once, less effective than spacing the information out over time.

Massed Practice.

300

Lost Past Memories: Inability to remember information from your past.

Retrograde Amnesia.

300

Throwing good after bad: The tendency to continue ones endeavor once money, time, or effort, is put into it.

Sunk-Cost Fallacy

300

Theory Alignment: The extent to which a test measures the theoretical construct it is intended to measure.

Construct Validity.

300

Fact Storage: Memory for knowledge about the world.

Semantic Memory.

300

False Memory Boost: The increased confidence in a false Memory of an event following repeated imagination of the event.

Imagination Inflation.

400

Cant make New memories: The inability to remember any new or current memories.

Anterograde Amnesia.

400

Misguided luck Belief: The Belief if it hadn't happened yet, it will soon.

Gambler's Fallacy

400

Score Stability: The consistency of scores on a test over time.

Test-Retest reliability

400

Automatic Memory: Retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection.

Implicit Memory.

400

Self-reflection On Thinking: Thinking about thinking, awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.

Metacognition.

500

Forgotten Origin: Attributing wrong sources of an event we have experienced, heard, or read, or imagined.

Source Amnesia.

500

The ability to focus or pay attention to one voice amongst many.

Cocktail Party Effect.

500

Future Behavior Predictor: The success with which a test predicts the behavior it is designed to predict; it is assessed by computing the correlation between test scores and the criterion behavior.

Predictive Validity.

500

Skill Memory: A type of implicit memory that involves motor skills and behavioral habits.

Procedural Memory.

500

Expectation Driven: Information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, drawing on our experiences and expectations.

Top-down Processing.

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