Chapter 11
The tendency for those who are 40+ years of age to recall autobiographical memories from when they were between 15-30 years old.
What is the REMINISCENCE BUMP?
High levels of _____________ increase the rigidity of memories such that they are more immune to misleading post-event information.
What is STRESS?
A smaller stature and impaired cognitive processes due to malnutrition
What is STUNTED GROWTH?
A neurotransmitter that is depleted in those who are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
What is ACETYLCHOLINE?
A mnemonic that involves paired-associate learning (e.g., 1 = bun).
What is the PEGWORD METHOD?
A region of the brain thought to be significantly smaller in those with PTSD.
What is the HIPPOCAMPUS?
Failure to notice changes in a scene.
What is CHANGE BLINDNESS?
The tendency to recall few autobiographical memories before the age of 5.
What is INFANTILE AMNESIA?
A theory of autobiographical remembering that proposes that an elaborative style is more common in Western Cultures and associated with opportunities to rehearse memories.
What is SOCIAL CULTURAL THEORY?
Better memory for distinctive items (e.g., names and faces).
What is the VON RESTORFF EFFECT
The most common function of autobiographical memories according to Hyman and Faries (1992).
What is a SOCIAL FUNCTION?
Impaired facial recognition after providing a verbal description of the face.
What is VERBAL OVERSHADOWING?
Developmental changes of the nervous system that involve the elimination of inefficient synapses.
what is PRUNING?
A substance that breaks down Acetylcholine.
What is CHOLINESTERASE?
Increased retrieval effort increases _____________ and leads to long-term memory performance.
What is STORAGE STRENGTH?
Conway's theory proposes that we have a ______________ self which consists of our active goals and our self image.
What is the WORKING SELF?
A police procedure that is meant to improve the match between encoding and retrieval contexts and encourage multiple memory retrieval routes.
What is a COGNITIVE INTERVIEW?
A bundle of nerves that connects both hemispheres of the brain.
What is the CORPUS CALLOSUM?
Failure to acquire new memories.
A principle for better memory that suggests extensive practice increases the speed of encoding and retrieval.
What is the SPEED-UP PRINCIPLE?
A mechanism proposed by Brown and Kulik (1977) to explain near photographic memories of highly emotional events.
What is the NOW PRINT mechanism?
When the overall structure of a face is processed, we call this ______________ processing.
What is HOLISTIC PROCESSING?
Freud's theory for infantile amnesia.
what is REPRESSION OF THREAT-RELATED THOUGHTS?
___________ law states that with retrograde amnesia, older memories are more resistant to disruption than recently formed memories.
What is RIBOT's Law?
A study procedure that is effective for short-term retention but not for longer term retention.
What is REPEATED STUDY?