Memory Processes
This process helps us get information into memory
What is encoding?
Handling auditory information in working memory.
What is phonological loop?
Memory regarding personal experiences.
What is episodic memory?
Ebbinghaus's graphical representation of retention and forgetting over time
What is a forgetting curve?
Riding a bike is an example of this type of memory
What is procedural memory?
(or implicit/nondeclarative)
Process visual and spatial information in working memory.
What is visuospatial sketchpad?
The assumed capacity of short-term memory
What is 7 items?
An individual erroneously believes that a certain random event is less likely or more likely to happen based on the outcome of a previous event or series of events.
What is gambler's fallacy?
Close attention and high levels of thought, focusing on an items meaning and relating it to something else. It leads to better retention.
What is deep processing?
You are using this type of memory when you answer "who is the first president of the United States?"
What is semantic memory?
Repeating information in order to maximize short term memory.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
What is echoic sensory memory?
The phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a strategy or course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it's clear that abandonment would be more beneficial.
What is sunk-cost fallacy?
When you keep recalling your old phone number instead of your new phone number
What is proactive interference?
Facts and experiences that we consciously know.
What is explicit memory?
When the successful retrieval of a memory depends on the environment where the memory was encoded
What is context-dependent memory?
A process by which synaptic connections between neurons becomes stronger with frequent activation.
What is long-term potentiation?
What we learn in one physiological state may be more easily recalled when we are again in that state.
What is state dependent learning?
Occurs when you have better recall for items at the BEGINNING of a list
What is the primacy effect?
A father's vivid recollection of the scene and his emotions when his daughter was born
What is a flashbulb memory?
Information is not processed and effectively stored in memory.
What is a encoding failure?
A type of sensory memory specific to vision
What is iconic memory?
Inability to form new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Remembering the beginning and end of a list but not the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
The inability to remember where, when, and how previously learned information has been acquired.
What is source amnesia?