Flashbulb memories
These are highly vivid and emotional memories of significant events, like where you were during a major historical event.
What are flashbulb memories?
This type of long-term memory involves remembering personal experiences.
What is episodic memory?
This error occurs when people confuse the source of their memories.
What is source confusion?
This process involves repeating information to keep it in short-term memory.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
This component of working memory handles auditory information.
What is the phonological loop?
This phenomenon refers to the strong belief in the accuracy of memories tied to significant or emotional events.
What is the flashbulb memory effect?
This type of long-term memory involves general knowledge about facts, concepts, and information.
What is semantic memory?
This memory error involves remembering an event that never happened.
What is a false memory?
This is a type of rehearsal where you associate new information with existing knowledge.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
This part of working memory integrates information from different sources and controls attention.
What is the central executive?
This term refers to the vividness and detail with which we remember significant events, often tied to emotions.
What is the emotional intensity of the event?
This type of memory helps us recall how to perform tasks like driving or playing an instrument.
What is procedural memory?
This is when a memory is altered by misleading post-event information.
What is the misinformation effect?
This process involves the transfer of information from short-term to long-term memory.
What is encoding?
This working memory component is responsible for holding visual and spatial information.
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
This theory suggests that flashbulb memories may be more accurate due to the emotional arousal associated with them.
What is the emotional arousal theory?
This term refers to memories that involve both personal experiences and the specific time and place they occurred.
What is episodic memory?
This is the tendency to remember emotionally charged events more vividly.
What is the flashbulb memory effect?
This retrieval strategy involves trying to recall information in a specific order or context.
What is contextual retrieval?
This working memory component is the "central executive" that manages cognitive tasks like problem-solving.
What is the central executive?
The phenomenon where people consistently remember where they were and what they were doing during major world events is an example of this.
What are flashbulb memories?
This is the process that involves remembering the sequence and timing of events.
What is autobiographical memory?
This error occurs when we form memories of events that are inconsistent with what actually happened.
What is a false memory?
This involves the ability to recall information without any hints or cues.
What is free recall?
This theory posits that working memory has a limited capacity for processing and holding information.
What is the limited capacity theory of working memory?