Encoding
Storage
Retrieval
Grab Bag
Forgetting
100
The ability to process multiple items at once.
What is parallel processing?
100
One is photographic memory and the other is memory from auditory stimuli.
What is iconic and echoic memory?
100
The measure of memory in which a person must retrieve information learned earlier, as in a fill-in-the-blank test.
What is recall?
100
The three stage model that describes how memories are formed.
What is The Atkinson Shiffrin Model?
100
The inattention to detail or encoding failure.
What is absent-mindedness?
200
To perform conscious repetition
What is rehearsal?
200
The limited capacity of short-term memory.
What is 7+/-2?
200
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current mood.
What is mood-congruent memory?
200
The mnemonic device in which you organize information into manageable units.
What is chunking?
200
The confusion of the source of information.
What is misattribution?
300
The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study.
What is spacing effect?
300
The prolonged strengthening of potential neural firing, as evidence of long term memory.
What is long term potentiation?
300
The effect used by the book to explain deja vu, where putting yourself back in context can help prime your memory retrieval.
What is context effect?
300
Doctor that did studies on child abuse and the misinformation effect.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
300
How does Ebbinghaus describe storage decay (fading)?
What is memory fades quickly then levels out?
400
Order in which levels of processing is better retained from worst to best. (there are three)
What is visual, acoustic, semantic?
400
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
What is flashbulb memory?
400
The activation , often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.
What is priming?
400
The part of the brain that organizes and consolidates information for long-term memory during sleep.
What is the hippocampus?
400
Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.
What is misinformation effect?
500
The more time we spend learning information, the more we retain is describe by this curve.
What is the Ebbinghaus Retention Curve?
500
Region of the brain that is related to the processing of implicit memories.
What is the cerebellum?
500
What phenomenon was used to describe drunken master kung fu style?
What is state-dependent memory?
500
The difference between short-term and working memory.
What is short-term memory holds items briefly, whereas the working memory actively process incoming information?
500
Defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
What is repression?
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