Brain & Memory
This part of the brain helps move memory from short term to long term storage and is shaped like a seahorse.
What is the hippocampus?
Curve of forgetting!
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
This type of memory storage is functionally infinite.
What is long term memory?
After a head trauma, not able to remember what happened before, but can form new memories.
What is retrograde amnesia?
This number represents how many items can be stored in short term memory (average).
What is 7?
What is the amygdala?
She researched flashbulb memories, as well as the unreliability of eyewitness testimony.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
Information from the external world enters our consciousness as this type of memory.
What is sensory memory?
The information never made it to long term memory storage.
What is encoding failure?
A specific type of encoding in which the meaning of something (a word, phrase, picture, event, whatever) is encoded as opposed to the sound or vision of it.
What is semantic encoding?
This part of the brain is involved in processing and storing procedural memories.
What is the cerebellum?
These two folks theorized the 3-step model of memory storage.
Who are Atkinson and Shiffrin?
According to the information-processing view of memory, information has to be ________ in order to transfer from short term to long term memory.
What is encoded?
Something you already knew interferes with your ability to make a new memory.
What is proactive interference?
The decreasing accessibility of memory over time.
What is transience?
A process involving persistent strengthening of synapses that leads to a long-lasting increase in signal transmission between neurons.
What is long term potentiation?
His early brain research concluded that memory traces are not isolated in just one part of the brain.
This technique can help you increase the amount of information you can hold in short-term memory by combining small units of information into larger units.
What is chunking?
Elizabeth Loftus found that these are most often false.
What is repressed memory?
The tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst.
What is serial position effect?
This is a hypothetical permanent change in the brain accounting for the existence of memory.
This is an engram.
He was one of the founders of Cognitive Psychology, and I will clap his name syllables for you.
Who is George Miller?
This memory-enhancing technique works by activating an association or representation in memory just before another stimulus or task is introduced.
What is priming?
This is when a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate because of post-event information
What is misinformation effect?
The phenomenon where people remember more information if their physical or mental state is the same as when they originally learned the information.
What is state dependence?