Encoding and Processing
Proccessing on a level that focuses on meaning thus leading to better long term recall
What is Deep Processing?
Type of memory that asks people to directly remember information
What is an explicit memory task?
What is own-ethnicity bias?
A principle that revolves around recall that is better when encoding continual retrieval matches
What is encoding specificity principle
Word completion and priming that measures memory on an implicit level
What is implicit memory task?
The type of effect that occurs when misleading post-event information changes memory of an event
What is post-event misinformation effect?
In the words of Lockhart, "Deeper proccessing improves recall because it increases this quality that reduces interference."
What is distinctiveness?
A Patient has normal semantic memory however cannot form new memories based on this type of amnesia
What is anterograde amnesia?
Impactful memories for emotional and shocking events through not totally accurate
What are flashbulb memories?
An effect that happens when remembering information better when it applies to oneself
What is the self-reference effect?
When a variable has a vital effect on one memory test but none on another
What is dissociation?
Emtional tone is generally more accurately remembered over time
What is pleasent stimuli?
Bilingual individuals recall information more adequately during encoding and retrieval
What is same language matching?
Experts outperform novices in research because of this type of knowledge structure
What is a well organized knowledge structure?
Debate between whether traumatic childhood memories are able to be suppressed, removed, and recovered.
What is the recovered-memory vs. false-memory controversy?