Important Peeps
STM
LTM
LTM 2
Misc
100
The physiologist that first conducted reaction time experiments.
Who is Franciscus Donders?
100
Memory that has a limited capacity and duration
What is Short Term Memory?
100
Type of memory that can hold unlimited amount of information for an unlimited amount of time.
What is Long Term Memory?
100
A process in memory that is influenced by the stimulus material
What is episodic memory?
100
The better recall of words at the end of a test.
What is the Recency effect?
200
The Physiologist/physicist who first presented the theory of unconscious inference.
Who is Herman von Helmholtz?
200
The use of STM as a temporary store for information needed to accomplish a task.
What is working memory?
200
How we store memories
What is encoding?
200
Memory evaluated by indirect memory tests.
What is implicit memory test?
200
The ability to recall words at the beginning and end of a list better than words in the middle of a list.
What is the serial position effect?
300
This person founded the first laboratory of psychology in Leipzig in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
300
This proposes that information is spontaneously lost over time.
What is Decay Theory?
300
The process of grouping items to make them easier to remember
What is chunking?
300
Memory evaluated by direct memory tests.
What is explicit memory test?
300
The better recall of words at the beginning of a list.
What is the Primacy effect?
400
This person proposed the approach called "Behaviorism" as a replacement for analytic introspection.
Who is John Watson?
400
Forgetting that occurs because of interference form material encountered after learning.
What is retroactive interference?
400
Memory of the general knowledge not associated with a particular context.
What is Semantic Memory?
400
Facilitation in the detection or recognition of a stimulus by using prior information.
What is Priming?
400
The semantic elaboration of information to classify and organize items into memory.
What is coding?
500
This person proposed a flow diagram to represent what happens in a persons mind as they direct their attention to something in their environment?
Who is Donald Broadbent?
500
Forgetting that occurs because of interference from material encountered before learning.
What is proactive interference?
500
Memory for actions, skills, and operations
What is Procedural Memory?
500
A retrieval that occurs without making conscious effort to recall information.
What is spontaneous retrieval?
500
Repeating verbal information to keep it active in STM or to transfer it into LTM.
What is rehearsal?
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