Miscellaneous Memory
These are vivid and lasting memories of an important or surprising event
What are flashbulb memories
Remembering the exact date that Abraham Lincoln became president is an example of this type of long-term memory
What is declarative memory (or semantic memory, specifically)
Forgetting information because we never paid much attention to it is called this
What is encoding failure
A computer's keyboard is analogous to this memory process
What is encoding
Remembering information but forgetting where it came from is an example of this
What is source amnesia
Divers who learned words underwater and remembered them better underwater exemplify this
Forgetting how to speak a language after not speaking it for years is an example of this
What is storage decay
Closing your eyes but still seeing an exact picture of the room for a brief moment is an example of this.
What is iconic memory
Being unable to recall someone's name despite knowing you learned it is an example of this phenomenon
What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
These are cues that help us recall something
What are retrieval cues (primes/priming could also be an answer)
In this type of interference, the release of new information about a crime in the news can disrupt initial eye-witness memory
What is retroactive interference
This type of memory holds tons of information for only an instant
What is sensory memory
Skills, such as brushing your teeth or tying your shoes, are stored in this type of memory
This is the process in which we rebuild our memories as we retrieve them, often filling in the memory-gaps with plausible guesses
This type of interference occurs when information learned earlier disrupts the recall of material learned later
What is proactive interference
Trying to remember your friend's coffee order through repetition is this strategy
What is rehearsal (maintenance rehearsal)
Using PEMDAS to remember the order of operations for a math problem is an example of this.
What is a mnemonic?
This theory of memory emphasizes the degree to which new material is mentally analyzed
What is the levels-of-processing theory
This disease, which includes hallucinations and tendency to repeat the same story, afflicts long-term alcoholics
This is the type of memory that stores information for a long period of time
What is long-term memory