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 idea that old learning makes it difficult to learn something new.

What is proactive interference?

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
The tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than items in the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
200
This is where many long term memories are stored through consolidation.
What is the hippocampus?
300

the retention of encoded information over time



what is sensory memory 
300

Learned skills, like swimming, or conditioned response without awareness.

What is implicit memory?

300

Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically. 232456 as 23 24 56, for example

What is chunking?

300

Seeing something you think is new but having a sense that you have seen it before.

What iis deja vu?

300
This person proposed the idea of the forgetting curve.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
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

The physical change or pathway when something new is learned.

What is memory trace?

400

A stimulus or event linked to a specific memory.

What is retrieval cue?

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

When the learning of new information disrupts information you have already learned.

What is retroactive interference?

500

encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.

What is effortful processing?

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 mood congruent 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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