Psychologists
Created the forgetting curve which examined the effect of retention intervals on memory.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
Contains a limitless capacity and permanent retention.
What is long term memory?
The ability to reason and process speedily and abstractly. Decreases with age.
What is Fluid intelligence?
Strategy for memory enhancement, which uses visualizations of familiar spatial environments in order to enhance the recall of information
What is the Method of Loci?
The inability to remember how you learned previously acquired information.
What is Source Amnesia?
Theroized that language in innate rather than learned and believed that all languages had similar structures.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
Deals with auditory information. Retentions of 1 to 2 seconds
What is Echoic memory?
Type of standarized test that reflects and measures what you’ve learned?
What is achievement test?
The tendency of people to remember information listed first or last and forget the middle.
What is the Serial-Position Effect?
Occurs when old information blocks the encoding of new information.
What is Proactive Interference?
Demonstrated the Misinformation effect in the Lost in a Mall study.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
Has a smaller capacity with a short retention span of about 30 sec. Information needs to be actively rehearsed.
What is short term memory?
Accumulated knowledge. Increases with age
What is crystallized intelligence?
The location where procedural and movement memory is stored?
What is the cerebellum?
The inability to form new memories
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
Established the theory that human short-term memory is generally limited to holding seven pieces of information, plus or minus two.
Who is George A. Miller?
Deals with visual information. Retention time of 0.5 seconds.
What is iconic memory?
Type of standarized test that predict and measure ability or future potential.
What is an aptitude test?
The physical change that takes place in the brain when a memory is formed.
What is a Memory Trace (Engram)
The false sense of previously experienced situation
What is Deja Vu?
Established the theory of multiple intelligences in which 9 types of intelligences apply to a wide variety of abilities.
Who is Howard Gardner?
Memories that do not rely upon conscious recall. Ex. riding a bike.
What is Implicit memory?
The tendency for IQ scores to change over time based on early education improvement, test sophistication, and overall intelligence increases due to economics and nutrition.
What is the Flynn Effect?
A temporary, labile memory is transformed into a more stable, long-lasting form
What is consolidation?
The tendency to only think of the familiar functions of an object.
What is Functional Fixedness?