error of recognition in which people think that they recognize some stimulus that is not actually in memory
What is False Positive
100
Answering multiple choice questions is what kind of memory retrieval
What is Recognition
100
inability to retrieve memories from much before age 3
What is infantile amnesia
100
an easy to remember sentence in which the first letter of each word corresponds to the first letters of the words to be remembered.
What is Acrostic
100
method of transferring information from STM to LTM by making that information meaningful in some way
What is Elaborative rehearsal
200
the tendency to falsely believe, though revision of older memories to include newer information, that one could have correctly predicted the outcome of an event
What is Hindsight Bias
200
memory retrieval problem that occurs when newer information prevents or interferes with the retrieval of older information
What is retroactive interference
200
Failure to process information into memory
What is encoding failure
200
easy to remember word constructed from the first letters of a list of words to be remembered
What is Acronym
200
memory that is not easily brought into conscious awareness, such as procedural memory
What is Implicit memory
300
tendency of misleading information presented after an event to alter the memories of the event itself
What is Misinformation Effect
300
predicts that information from the middle of a list will be forgotten
What is serial position effect
300
the hippocampus stores what type of memory
What is long term memory
300
A list in which items to be remembered are linked in some way
What is linking
300
types of declarative memories
What is semantic memory (memory containing general knowledge) and episodic memory (memory containing personal information not readily available to others)
400
condition in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by memories which are factually incorrect but are strongly believed
What is False Memory Syndrome
400
Memory that is vivid and detailed
What is Flash Bulb Memory
400
System that encodes, stores, and retrieves information
What is memory
400
Information to be remembered is organized in a rhyming and rhythmic pattern, sometimes to a tune
What is rhythmic organization
400
loss of memory from the point of some injury or trauma backwards, or loss of memory for the past
What is retrograde amnesia
500
Memory problem that occurs when older information prevents or interferes with the retrieval of newer information
What is proactive interference
500
answering an essay, short answer, or fill in the blank is this type of memory retrieval
What is Recall
500
tendency to remember information at the end of a body of information than the information at the beginning
What is recency effect
500
shows a distinct pattern in which forgetting is very fast in the first hour after learning a list and then tapers off
What is curve of forgetting
500
loss of memory from the point of injury or trauma from the point of injury of trauma forward, or the inability to form new LTMs