This type of memory can hold a limited amount of information for a limited period of time.
What is short-term memory? (or working memory)
100
This type of long-term memory involves memories for facts or events, such as scenes, stories, words, conversations, faces, or daily events.
What is declarative memory?
100
Short-term and long-term memories are activated, and can be found, in this part of the brain.
What is the cortex?
100
This type of memory receives and holds environmental information in its raw form for a brief period of time.
What is sensory memory?
100
This is the earliest average age a person can recall personal memories.
What is 3 1/2?
200
Our short-term memory can hold an average of this number of items.
What is 7.
200
This type of encoding refers to the transfer of information from short-term into long-term memory without any effort and usually without any awareness.
What is automatic encoding?
200
This area of the brain is responsible for the emotions that are attached to memories.
What is the amygdala?
200
This type of memory occurs in adults and is the ability to form sharp, detailed visual images after examining a picture or page for a short period of time.
What is photographic memory?
200
This mental process, according to Freud, automatically hides emotionally threatening memories in the unconscious.
What is repression (or repressed memories)?
300
Our short-term memory can hold information for a limited amount of time, topping out at this number.
What is 30 seconds?
300
This type of long-term memory involves memories for motor skills (playing tennis), and some cognitive behaviors learned through classical conditioning.
What is procedural or nondeclarative memory?
300
This part of the brain transfers and stores memories.
What is the hippocampus?
300
This form of sensory memory automatically holds visual information.
What is iconic memory?
300
This classifies a temporary or permanent loss of memory.
What is amnesia?
400
When someone asks a question as you are memorizing a phone number, it is called this.
What is interference?
400
This effect says we have better recall of information presented at the beginning and end of a task.
What is the primacy-recency effect?
400
These memories are encoded effortlessly, last a long time, and are emotionally charged incidents that are of interest to the person.
What are flashbulb memories?
400
This effect means making info “relevant to you” and aids in memory and recall.
What is the self-reference effect?
400
These cues are mental reminders that we create by forming vivid mental images or creating associations between new information and information we already know.
What are retrieval cues?
500
This process involves combining separate items of information into a larger unit and then remembering those units of information rather than individual items.
What is chunking?
500
This type of declarative memory involves knowledge of specific events, personal experiences (episodes), or activities.
What is episodic memory?
500
The hippocampus transfers and saves these types of memories into long-term memory.
What are declarative memories (or information)?
500
This type of memory is the tendency to recall best when we are in a similar emotional and physiological state as when learning.
What is state-dependent memory?
500
This phenomenon occurs when old information (learned earlier) blocks or disrupts the remembering of related new information (learned later).