VOCAB
DISORDERS/MEMORY ERRORS
INFORMATION PROCESSING
THEORIES/EFFECTS
RANDOM
100

What is retroactive interference?

When new learning disrupts the recall of previously-learned information.

100

What is Alzheimer's Disease?


A progressive disease that destroys the brain's neurons, gradually impairing memory, thinking, language, and other cognitive functions, resulting in the complete inability to care for oneself; the most common form of dementia.

100

What is encoding, storage, and retrieval?


The three parts for the box information processing model.

100

What is the interference theory?


The theory that forgetting is caused by one memory competing with or replacing another.

100

This is where memory takes place.

hippocampus

200

What is Proactive Interference?


The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.


200

What is Amnesia?


Severe memory loss.

200

What is unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequence?

Define Automatic Processing.

200

What is the serial position effect?


The tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than items in the middle.

200

Are memories stored outside or inside the hippocampus?

outside

300

What are schemas?


A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.


300

What is source amnesia?


Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined.

300

What is chunking?


Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically.

300

What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?


A memory phenomenon that involves the sensation of knowing that specific information is stored in long-term memory, but being temporarily unable to retrieve it.

300

Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?


proposed the idea of the forgetting curve.

400

What is the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory?

Define Priming


400

What is the misinformation effect?


Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.

400

What is rehearsal?


The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.

400

What is the decay theory?


Proposes that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time.

400

What is the Reminiscance Bump?


The empirical finding that people over 40 years old have enhanced memory for events from adolescence and early adulthood, compared to other periods of their lives.

500

What is confabulation?


The false recollection of episodic memory, filling in gaps.


500

What is Korsakoff's Syndrome?


A disorder that usually occurs in chronic alcoholic where the subject is unable to form new episodic memories but retain some implicit memories.

500

What is encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.


Define effortful processing

500

What is state dependent memory?


The theory that information learned in a particular state of mind is more easily recalled when in that same state of mind.

500

what is mnemonics?

Tricks that people use nto help them remeber things