Vocabulary
Disorders/Memory Errors
Information Processing
Theories/Effects
Miscellaneous
100

persistence of learning over time; involves encoding, storage, and retrieval of information

What is memory
100
A progressive disease that destroys the brain's neurons, gradually impairing memory, thinking, language, and other cognitive functions, resulting in the complete inability to care for oneself; the most common form of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
100
The three parts for the box information processing model.
What is encoding, storage, and retrieval?
100

The theory that forgetting is caused by new information competing with or replacing old informatiion.

What is displacement?

100
This is where memory takes place.
Where is all over the brain?
200

the processing of information into the memory system--for example, by extracting meaning

What is encoding 
200
Severe memory loss.
What is Amnesia?
200
Define Automatic Processing.
What is unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequence?
200

According to this Multi Store Memory theory, this is required for sensory memories move to STM.

What is Attention?

200
This is where many long term memories are stored through consolidation.
What is the hippocampus?
300

This is comprised of information gather through the 5 senses...

What is sensory memory?


300
Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined.
What is source amnesia?
300
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically.
What is chunking?
300

According to the Reconstructive memory theory, these can influence how we remember an event...

What are experience and expectation?


300

These can help trigger a memory...

What is a cue?


400

Define Priming

What is the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory?

400
Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.
What is the misinformation effect?
400
The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.
What is rehearsal?
400
Proposes that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time.
What is the decay theory?
400

Braun et al. attempted to influence this type of memory...

What is the Autobiographical Memory?

500
The false recollection of episodic memory, filling in gaps.
What is confabulation?
500

A source of amnesia due to deterioration of the brain, can be caused by viral infections.

What is encephalitis?

500
Define effortful processing
What is encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.
500
The theory that information learned in a particular state of mind (e.g., depressed, happy, somber) is more easily recalled when in that same state of mind.
What is state dependent memory?
500
A cognition and memory psychologist. She studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
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