Memory
Encoding
Storage and Retrieval
I Forget
Psychology Experiments
100
Any indication that learning has persisted over time
What is memory?
100
The processing of information into the memory system
What is encoding?
100
Two types of sensory memory
What is iconic and echoic?
100
In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
What is repression?
100
Incorporating miseading information into one's memory of an event
What is misinformation effect?
200
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event
What is flashbulb memory?
200
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically
What is chunking?
200
Retention independent of conscious recollection, also called procedural memory
What is implicit memory?
200

When this part of the brain is damaged, it can cause amnesia.

Hippocampus

200
Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. Also called source misattribution.
What is source amnesia?
300
The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system
What is sensory memory?
300
Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort
What is effortful processing?
300
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare". Also called declarative memory
What is explicit memory?
300
This is the part of the brain that, if damaged, could impact learned skills like riding a biking or playing a piano.
What is the cerebellum?
300

What can a correlational study show us?

How two things are related and how they affect each other.

400

part of memory that holds enough information to complete tasks

What is working memory?

400
The three types of encoding
What is visual, acoustic, and semantic?
400
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood
What is mood- congruent memory?
400
The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
What is proactive interference?
400

When memorizing a list, we tend to remember the first few items and the last few, but not the items in the middle of the list. The effect is called...

Serial-position effect

500

This type of encoding requires conscious attention and effort.

effortful processing

500
Tendency to retain information more easily if we practice it repeatedly over time than if we practice it in one long session
What is spacing effect?
500

These are the stimuli that help retrieve information from long-term memory

Retrieval Cues
500
The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information
What is retroactive interference?
500

Use this data set to find the mean, range, and mode.

2, 5, 3, 8, 2, 12, 10, 2, 10

Mean=6

Range=10

Mode=2

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