Visual representations that last 1 second in sensory memory
What is iconic sensory memories?
100
Helps gain access to a memory, like a stimulus
What is a retrieval cue?
100
If information in long-term isn't used it fades over time
What is decay theory?
200
First man to plot the forgetting curve
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
200
Information is stored based on acoustic codes
What is phonemic?
200
Information needs to be _________ or _________, otherwise it will be forgotten.
What is meaningful and rehearsed?
200
Material that is remembered with little or no stimulus
What is recall?
200
New memories interfere with remembering old memories
What is retroactive interference?
300
Proposed the information processing model which describes the flow of information through sensory memory to short-term memory and then to long-term memory
Who was Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin?
300
Information stored based on what is means exactly
What is semantic?
300
Fact memories such as names, dates, and events.
What is declarative memory?
300
Information that was presented in the beginning of a sequence is remembered because it is in long-term memory
What is primacy effect?
300
The same material is easier to remember the second time
What is savings?
400
Conducted the partial report procedure experiment that measures sensory memory
Who was George Sperling?
400
Suggests that deeper levels of processing results in longer lasting memory codes
What is the Levels of Processing theory?
400
(DAILY DOUBLE) Name three mnemonic devices.
Rehearsal, elaboration, method of loci, peg word system, organization, SQ3R, over learning, meta memory, spaced practice.
400
Studying or learning in the place it is is being tested on to maximize retrieval cues
What is locus dependent learning?
400
A loss of memory prior to a brain injury
What is retrograde amnesia?
500
Devised a method for measuring the duration of short-term memory
Who were John Brown, Lloyd, and Margaret Peterson?
500
Allan Paivio's _______ suggests that information is remembered better when it is stored with both visual and semantic codes
What is the Dual Code theory?
500
The hippocampus, amygdala, and thalamus all send nerve fibers to the _________.
What is the cerebral cortex?
500
When we know information but cannot retrieve it
What is Tip-of-the-Tongue experience?
500
Memories are to unpleasant to remember so they are consciously unavailable