Memory
It's a Process
I Don't Remember
Completion
Mix & Match
100
This type of memory is traces of sound.
What is Echoic?
100
Your brain being a filing cabinet is an example of this.
What is storage?
100
These are normal factors in forgetting (there are two).
What is Decay and Interference?
100
The fading away of a memory over time.
What is decay?
100
Not remembering your early childhood.
What is infantile amnesia?
200
Brief images – a flashbulb image is this type of memory.
What is Iconic?
200
Repetition - Drill/Practice
What is maintenance rehearsal?
200
The third task of memory. (Hint: Algebra)
What is relearning?
200
It's another name for working memory.
What is short-term memory?
200
Occasionally suffered by athletes after being knocked out during a game.
What is retrograde amnesia?
300
Emotional memories
What is State-Dependent memory?
300
Elaborate rehearsal is closely related to this type of encoding.
What is semantic encoding?
300
Not being able to make new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
300
This occurs when short-term memory is full and new info is displaced.
What is interference?
300
The three basic memory tasks.
What are recognition, recall, and relearning?
400
Facts and learning in class are a part of this type of memory.
What is semantic memory?
400
Retrieving memories when being in the location they were encoded.
What is content-dependent memory?
400
Previously learned information stops the retrieval of new information.
What is Proactive interference?
400
Being able to remember the last items in a series.
What is recency effect?
400
Freud believed disturbing memories cause this.
What is repression?
500
This type of memory is primarily learned habits.
What is implicit memory?
500
Converting physical stimulus into mental formats.
What is encoding?
500
Performed the first experiment about memory.
Who was Hermann Ebbinghaus?
500
The way we perceive things and organize bits of information.
What are schemas?
500
Using the letter D to remind you that dromedary camels have one hump is this type of strategy.
What is a mnemonic device?
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