Memory Processing
Memory Mishmash
Forgetting
Encoding Specificity
Retrieval Problems
100

lobe of brain that processes incoming information for explicit memories (right: visually-oriented, left: language-based)

what is the frontal lobe?

100

the memory for tasks that need to be completed in the future

what is prospective memory?

100

disease with retrograde (cannot retrieve old memories), anterograde (cannot form new memories), and source (attributes a reassembled memory during retrieval it to the wrong source) types

what is amnesia?

100

memory that relies on going back to the physical place where memory was formed

what is context-dependent memory?

100

retrieval process that produces a partial response (suggests that forgetting is often a retrieval failure more than an encoding/storage failure)

what is tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?

200

registers and temporarily holds elements of explicit memories before moving them to other brain regions for long-term storage

what is the hippocampus?

200

clear memories of an emotionally significant moment/event

what are flashbulb memories?
200
name both: types of motivated forgetting in which people forget unwanted memories

what are thought suppression (conscious) and psychological repression (unconscious)?

200

memory that involves greater ease of recollection while in same state of consciousness as was when the memory was formed 

what is state-dependent memory?

200

name both: idea that prior learning interferes with recall of new info; idea that new learning disrupts recall of old info

what are proactive interference and retroactive interference, respectively?

300

helps store (implicit) memory of learned physical behaviors/activities

what is the cerebellum?

300

neural basis for learning and forming long-term memories

what is long-term potentiation?

300

incorporating misleading info into one’s memory of an event

what is the misinformation effect?

300

tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one’s current mood

what is mood congruency?

300

idea that current learning can be bolstered by former learning

what is positive transfer?

400

involved in motor movement and help form procedural memories for skills (implicit memory)

what is the basal ganglia?

400

the three components of measuring memory

what are recall, recognition, and relearn?

400

feelings of familiarity with a stimulus without clear idea/details of where we experienced it before

what is deja vu?

400

accounts for our tendency to recall best the last items studied from a list as part of the serial-position effect

what is the recency effect?

400

idea that associating too many specific pieces of info with a single concept makes it slower to retrieve an individual piece of info

what is the fan effect?

500

phenomenon in which but we cannot remember learning many skills/associations from the first 3 years of life

what is infantile amnesia?

500

accounts for our tendency to recall best the last and first items studied from a list

what is the serial-position effect?

500

names both a retention and forgetting curve

who is Ebbinghaus?

500

accounts for our tendency to recall best the first items studied from a list as part of the serial-position effect

what is the primacy effect?

500

rehearsing one or two of many memories associated with a single cue and forgetting the others

what is retrieval-induced forgetting?

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