Types of LTM
Memory for personal events you experienced
What is episodic memory?
Principle that deeper, meaning-based thinking improves memory
What is levels of processing?
Conscious remembering such as recall or recognition.
What is explicit memory?
Mistaking where you learned something from.
What is a source monitoring error?
Memory for your life history (personal timeline)
What is autobiographical memory?
Memory for facts, concepts, and general knowledge
What is semantic memory?
Remembering information better when you relate it to yourself
What is the self-reference effect?
Memory shown without conscious awareness (ex: priming).
What is implicit memory?
Confusing something imagined with something that actually happened.
What is a reality monitoring error?
Mental frameworks that shape how we interpret and remember events
What are schemas?
Memory for skills like tying shoes or riding a bike
A: What is procedural memory?
When recall improves because the learning and testing contexts match
What is encoding specificity?
hen a factor affects explicit memory but not implicit memory (or vice versa)
What is dissociation?
When your beliefs about yourself stay consistent and you “rewrite” past memories to match
What is consistency bias?
Very vivid memories for emotional events that can still be inaccurate.
What are flashbulb memories?