Module 31
The persistence of learning over time through encoding, storage, and retrieval of information.
What is memory
Principle that explains why we only remember things in specific context
What is the encoding specificity principle?
Deja vu
What is that eerie sense that ¨ I've experienced this before¨
The ability to provide a single correct answer.
What is convergent thinking?
This type of memory got its name from an echo chamber.
What is Echoic Memory
The process of getting information out of memory storage.
What is Retrieval
State-dependent memory
What is when we recall something we learned in a certain state of mind.
A process in which previously store memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again
What is Reconsolidation
the ability to produce ideas that are both novel and valuable
What is creativity?
Daily Double
Daily Double
Encoding
What is the processing information into memory systems
This is like a save button for explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
The unconscious blocking of unpleasant emotions, impulses, memories, and thoughts from your conscious mind
What is repression
an aptitude test that require convergent thinking
What is the SAT
Anterograde amnesia
What is An inability to form new memories due to injury or illness
This type of memory is most common when "cramming" for a test.
What is short-term memory.
The process of moving memories to other areas of the brain is this
What is memory consolidation?
The man who had some of his hippocampus removed in order to stop seizures.
Who is Henry Molaison
divergent thinking
What is the thinking required for creativity tests?
Being more driven by motivation, interest, challenge than by external pressures
What is an "Intrinsic motivation" in the components of creativity?
Psychologists that focused on explicit memories
Who were Atkinson and Shiffrin
Serial position effect
What states that we remember items at the beginning an end of lists best?
The man who attempted to recall nonsense strings of syllables 30 days later
Who is Ebbinghaus?
new experiences and perseveres in overcoming obstacles.
what is venturesome personality?
A forward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information
What is proactive interference