Studying and Encoding Memory
the persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
Memory
Semantic Memory
In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
Repression
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood
Mood-Congruent Memory
A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test
Recall
Hippocampus
The forward-acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information
Proactive Interference
Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list
Serial Position Effect
Recognition
Flashbulb Memory
An inability to form new memories
Anterograde Amnesia
Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined
Source Amnesia
The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system
Sensory Memory
The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory
Priming
An inability to retrieve information from one's past
Retrograde Amnesia
Enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than simply rereading information
Testing Effect
Unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings
Automatic Processing
An increase in a cell's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation; a neural basis for learning and memory
Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)
Occurs when misleading information has distorted one's memory of an event
Misinformation Effect
This term represents a graph that shows that there is generally a sudden drop in retention shortly after learning, followed by a more gradual decline thereafter
Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve