General Memory
Memory Processing
Memory Storage
Memory Retrieval
Memory Decay
100

The three measures of memory

What is recall, recognition, and relearn?

100

Encoding on a basic level 

What is shallow processing?

100

Organizing items in familiar manageable units 

What is chunking?

100

Inability to retrieve old memories 

What is retrograde amnesia?

100

Neurological disease associated with memory loss

What is Alzheimer’s disease?

200

A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli (picture imagery)

What is iconic memory?

200

Memory aids 

What is mnemonics?

200

Tendency for distributed study/practices to yield better long term retention 

What is spacing effect?

200

The common saying for the eerie feeling that, “I’ve experienced this before.”

What is deja vu?

200

An inability to form new memories 

What is anterograde amnesia?

300

Unconscious coding of incidental information

What is automatic processing?

300

This part of the brain facilitates formation of our procedural memories for skills

What is the basal ganglia?

300

Retention of learned skills or classical conditioned associations 

What is implicit memory?

300

The lobe in which familiarity takes place 

What is temporal lobe?

300

The concept Sigmund Freud believed in regarding memory though must psychologists do not agree with Freud 

What is repression?

400

Information processing models

What is encoding, storage, retrieval 

400

The three stages in the module preposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shriffrin

What is sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory?

400

Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

What is effortful processing?

400

Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list. 

What is the Serial Position effect?

400

When misleading information distorts one’s memory of an event

What is misinformation effect?

500

Demonstrating speed of relearning with non-sense syllables

Who is Hermann Ebbiinghaus? 

500

Helps process explicit memories (location of the brain)

What is the hippocampus?

500

Critical factor to memory consolidation 

What is sleep?

500

Previously learned information often facilites our learning of new information

What is positive transfer phenomenon?

500

the kind of memory that decays the fastest 

What is iconic memory?

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