Memory 1
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Memory 5
100
Persistence of learning one time; involves encoding, storage, and retrieval of information.
What is memory?
100
The immediate, initial recording of sensory information in the memory system.
What is Sensory Memory?
100
The unconscious encoding of incidental information, often space, time, and frequency.
What is automatic processing?
100
Our tendency to recall best the first and last items on a list.
What is the serial position effect?
100
The encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words.
What is semantic encoding?
200
The processing of information into the memory system.
What is encoding?
200
Clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
What is flashbulb memory?
200
Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.
What is effortful processing?
200
Better recall of information presented at the beginning of a list of class.
What is the primacy effect?
200
Phenomenon where we better remember information perceived to be relevant to ourselves.
What is the self-reference effect?
300
The retention of encoded information over time.
What is storage?
300
Activate memory that holds a few items briefly (up to 30 seconds), such as 7 digits of a phone number while dialing.
What is short-term memory?
300
The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or encode it for storage.
What is rehearsal?
300
Advantage in recall of information just recently presented.
What is the recency effect?
300
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units
What is chunking?
400
The process of getting information out of memory storage.
What is retrieval?
400
The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system.
What is long-term memory?
400
The tendency to forget what was said by the person immediately before you during introductions or saying words.
What is the next-in-line effect?
400
Encoding of picture images.
What is visual encoding?
400
Momentary sensory memory of visual images
What is iconic memory?
500
The loss of memory.
What is amnesia?
500
The tendency for distributed practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through mass study or practice.
What is the spacing effect?
500
early memory researcher who taught himself lists of nonsense syllables to systematically test his recall.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
500
The encoding of sound, usually with words.
What is acoustic encoding?
500
The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information
What is retroactive interference?
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