General Terms
A term that means getting information out of storage
Retrieval
Part of the neuron that receives information from other cells
Dendrite
When storage of similar sounding items interfere with each other.
Phonological similarity effect
The idea that time spent learning is linearly related to mastery of that subject.
Total time hypothesis
This refers to how spaced repetition is more effective than massed studying
Distributed practice effect
Uncontrolled variables that can change the interpretation of your results
Confounds
Lashley's findings demonstrated that memories are stored in a ___________ manner.
Distributed
Meaningful units of grouped items
Chunks
When we pay less attention to something we just saw.
Deficient processing hypothesis
The idea that we often miss differences in our environment
Change Blindness
A benefit of testing various populations outside of the lab is that it has good:
Generalizability or external validity.
This uses magnetic pulses to manipulate neural activity
TMS
This part of the multicomponent model allows short-term memory stores to interact with long-term memory
Episodic buffer
When you reactivate days events during sleep
Sleep dependent replay
We encode a memory in many ways when we repeatedly study it in different states or locations
Encoding variability
What happens to unattended information in sensory memory?
It is lost or forgotten
A region that includes connections between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex
Diencephalon
This is an experimental task where participants' repeatedly say sounds such as "the, the, the."
Articulatory suppression
Dividing attention reduces activity in this part of the frontal lobe.
Ventrolateral PFC
This term refers to changes in the brain due to learning or experiences
Structural plasticity
A memory task where you ask for a specific memory such as "what is your favorite color?"
Cued recall
What is a major con of disease related studies on memroy?
It's difficult to separate memory impairment from other deficits
Who does working memory training most clearly benefit
People with high working memory capacity
Where do we see increased activity when participants are curious?
Ventral Tegmental Area and nucleus accumbens
Emotional associative learning relies on the __________ but not on the _____________
Amygdala; hippocampus