Types of Memory
This type of memory is known for happening without you even realizing it.
What is Implicit Memory?
This part of the brain is linked with the recall of general knowledge- much like this game.
What is the Left Frontal Lobe?
This is the common inability in adults to retrieve episodic memories from their first two to four years of life.
What is Infantile Amnesia?
Someone wasn't paying attention! This is the brain's inability to transfer information from short-term memory into long-term memory.
What is Encoding Failure?
These are helpful tools to make remembering information a snap! Common examples include ROY G. BIV and Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge.
What are Mnemonics?
This type of memory takes some real effort!
What is Explicit Memory?
This part of the brain is considered a "save button" for explicit memories.
What is the Hippocampus?
The inability to remember the origin, context, or time of acquired factual knowledge, even though you still remember the information itself.
What is Source Amnesia?
This is the idea that memories that aren't accessed, rehearsed or reinforced will fade automatically with the passage of time.
What is Memory Decay?
This is an organizational structure where information is arranged in a multi-level, tree-like system, moving from general categories down to specific subcategories and individual details, ofton used for studying.
What is a Heirarchy?
This is a vivid, detailed, and long-lasting memory of the moment you heard about a surprising, emotionally significant, or shocking event- such as the Kennedy assasination.
What is a Flashbulb Memory?
This "little brain" helps form and store implicit memories created by classical conditioning.
What is the Cerebellum?
The inability for an individual to recall previously formed memories from before the brain injury occured.
What is Retrograde Amnesia?
For when you just can't remember! This is when you cannot access information stored in your long-term memory, primarily caused by a lack of the proper mental or physical cues.
What is Retrival Failure?
This is a cognitive process that groups individual pieces of information into larger, more meaningful parts to improve memory. An example would be to group together your groceries by produce, meat, and dairy categories.
What is Chunking?
This form of memory is known as a sort of "storage locker" for your memories, and has as much storage space as the World Wide Web.
What is Long-Term Memory?
This part of the brain is linked to emotions and release stress hormones that focuses memory. Note: this emotional reaction can cause tunnel vision memory.
What is the Amygdala?
This man had part of his hippocampus removed to stop persistant seizures, and developed what we now call Anterograde Amnesia.
Who was Henry Molaison (or simply M.H.)?
This is when you remember a piece of information or an event accurately, but make a mistake about where or whom you recieved it from.
What is Source Misattribution?
Our innate tendency to recall the last
(recency effect) and first (primacy effect)
items in a list the best.
What is Serial Position Effect?
This memory is like taking a visual snapshot and lasts up to 1 second.
What is Iconic Memory?
This part of the brain accociates with motor movement and the facilitation and formation of our procedural memories, such as riding a bike. Note: this part recieves imput, but does not return it.
What is the Basal Ganglia?
Memory loss triggered by severe psychological stress, trauma, or abuse rather than physical brain damage. Note: It often affects personal identity or specific traumatic events.
What is Dissociative/Pychogenic Amnesia?
This is when the brain builds and shapes memories during encoding, storage, and retrieval, rather than replaying them like an exact video.
What is a Constructed Memory?
The idea that cues and contexts of a particular memory will be the most effective way to recall it.
What is the Encoding Specificity Principle?