Refers to the capacity to retain and retrieve information.
What is memory?
100
Conscious, intential recollection of an event or of an item of information.
What is explicit memory?
100
Short-term memory plus the mental processed that control retrieval of information from long-term memory and interpret that information appropriatly for a given task.
What is working memory?
100
An important technique for keeping information in short-term memory and increasing chances of long-term retention.
What is rehearsal?
100
According to this theory of forgetting, information may get into memory but become confused with other information.
What is interference?
200
Recovering memory is simular to what...according to your book.
Like watching unconnected frames of a movie and figuring out what the rest of the scene was like.
200
The ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material.
What is recall?
200
A meaningful unit of information; it may be composed of smaller units.
What is a chunk?
200
Association of new information with already stored knowledge and analysis of the new information to make it memorable.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
200
Forgetting that occurs when recently learned material interferes with the ability to remember old information.
What is retroactive interference?
300
The inability to distinguish your original experience from information you added after the fact.
What is source misattribution?
300
This has limited capacity and stores materials for about 30 seconds.
What is short-term memory?
300
Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occured.
What is episodic memories?
300
Strategies and tricks for improving memory, such as the use of a verse or a formula.
What are mnemonics?
300
The partial or complete loss of memory for improtant personal information.
What is amnesia?
400
Christina was visiting friends in New York City on September 11, 2001, the day of the attack on the World Trade Center. To her, that day seems frozen in time. She remembers exactly where she was, what she was doing. What would we call this?
What is frozen memory?
400
This model of memory suggests that knowledge is represented as connections among thousands of interacting processing units, distributed in a vast network and all operating in parallel.
What is parallel distributed processing?
400
The tendency for recall of the first and last items on a list to surpass recall of items in the middle of the list.
What is serial-position effect?
400
The theory that information in memory eventually disappears if it is not accessed.
What is the decay theory?
400
The inability to remember events and experiences that occured during the first two or three years of life.
What is childhood amnesia?
500
Confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened.
What is confabulation?
500
In the three-box model, all incoming sensory information must make a brief stop here before the information fades or moves.
What is the sensory register?
500
Memories of general knowledge, including rules, facts, concepts, and propostions.
What are semantic memories?
500
In this theory of forgetting, one's original perception can be erased by new information.
What is replacement?
500
The tendency to remember something when the rememberer is in the same physical or mental state as during the original learning experience.