Introduction to Memory
This type of memory is compromised of a person's unique recollection of experiences, events & situations.
What is episodic memory?
"Think how excited you would be if you were glued to your mate." is an example of this encoding tactic for the term "Glutamate"
What is a mnemonic device?
What is maintenance rehearsal?
What we learn in one physiological state may be more easily recalled when we are again in that state.
What is state-dependent memory?
This study proved forgetting occurs rapidly after initial learning and levels off over time.
What is Ebbinghaus's Forgetting Curve?
Temporarily stores & rehearses verbal and auditory information.
What is the phonological loop?
Relying on spatial relationships between locations to encode and later retrieve information
What is Method of Loci?
A type of amnesia due to hippocampus damage that makes it harder to move information from short term to long term memory.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
When recalling a memory in which you experienced something frightening you are recalling from _________ in the brain.
What is the amygdala?
A defense mechanism in the unconscious mind to block distressing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
What is Repression?
This type of memory is information recalled unconsciously or automatically
What is implicit memory?
Organizing words or concepts into groups/categories that are related together make information easier to remember than organizing them randomly.
What is Hierarchies?
Our conscious memory of our first 4 years of life is largely blank.
What is infantile amnesia?
When depressed, we recall sad events, which darkens our interpretations of current events.
What is mood-congruency?
Old or previously learned information can hinder or obstruct the recall of newly learned information.
What is Proactive interference?
A type of deep level processing of long-term memory, involving the capacity to recall words, concepts or numbers
What is Semantic memory?
Encoding processes can be affected by the order of how information is presented
What is the Serial Position Effect?
The Digit Span tests that proved the theory of the "Magic Number 7" is associated with this kind of memory.
What is the Digit Span Tests?
What is context-dependent memory?
The inability to recall how, when or where information was learned while still retaining the information itself.
What is source amnesia?
A process by which synaptic connections between neurons become stronger with frequent activation
What is Long-Term Potentiation?
AKA "cramming" can produce speedy short term learning but those who learn quickly also forget quickly
What is massed practice?
What is Sensory Memory?
The activation, often unconsciously, of particular association in long-term implicit memory.
What is priming?
Incorporating new information into an existing memory, which alters the original memory.
What is Memory Reconsolidation?