Memory
This process consists of transforming information into a form that can be stored in memory.
What is encoding?
This type of memory is unconscious or automatic.
What is implicit memory?
In this process, the brain transforms memories from a fragile state to a more permanent state resistant to disruption.
What is consolidation?
This term describes the best or average example identifying the center of a category.
What is prototype?
This type of memory decays rapidly and transfers to short-term memory with the help of attention according to the Atkinson-Shiffrin modal model of memory.
What is sensory memory?
This type of memory is for facts, concepts, and general knowledge.
What is semantic memory?
These memories for emotional events are vivid, detailed, and retained over many years.
What are flashbulb memories?
This term describes members of a category that the person has experience in the past.
What are exemplars?
The process of grouping small units of information into larger meaningful units, such as grouping parts of a grocery list by their aisles.
What is chunking?
What is episodic memory?
These types of memory errors are a product of our schemas or knowledge about what is typical in a particular situation.
What are knowledge-based errors?
These models of categorization state that each category has a set of defining features that every member must have.
What are definitional models/classical model?
This type of test involves retrieving information from memory in the exact order it was presented in without or with minimal external cues.
What is serial recall?
This type of memory helps humans remember to perform an intended action in the future.
What is prospective memory?
These types of memory errors happen when we misremember the context or source in which we learned a piece of information.
What are source-monitoring errors?
These models of categorization are limited by context effects, a lack of specificity, and typicality effects of new categories.
What are prototype models?
This measure describes the number of items and individual can report from a single exposure.
What is apprehension span?
This disorder describes the inability to remember events occurring after an injury.
What is anterograde amnesia?
The main finding of this experimental design is that when people are presented a list of semantically related words, they mistakenly remember the word describing the theme of the words.
What is the DRM Paradigm?
These models of knowledge explain that knowledge is represented through a distributed pattern of activation rather than localized.
What are connectionist models?