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The Phenomenon of Memory
Encoding
Storage and Retrieval
Forgetting
Memory Construction
100
Any indication that learning has persisted over time
What is memory
100
The processing of information into the memory system
What is encoding
100
Two types of sensory memory
What is iconic and echoic
100
In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
What is repression
100
Incorporating miseading information into one's memory of an event
What is misinformation effect
200
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event
What is flashbulb memory
200
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically
What is chunking
200
Retention independent of conscious recollection, also called procedural memory
What is implicit memory
200

A form of memory loss that causes an inability to remember events from the past

Retrograde amnesia 

200
Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. Also called source misattribution.
What is source amnesia
300
The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system
What is sensory memory
300
Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort
What is effortful processing
300
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare". Also called declarative memory
What is explicit memory
300

Using a coin to loosen a screw when you don't have a screwdriver is overcoming what? 

Functional Fixedness

300

The roulette wheel has landed on red five times in a row, believing that black is "due," is called 

Gambler's Fallacy

400
A newer understanding of short term memory that involves conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual- spatial information, and of information retrieved from long- term memory
What is working memory
400

A tendency to approach problems using a familiar solution or strategy, even if it doesn't work every time

Mental set

400
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood
What is mood- congruent memory
400
The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
What is proactive interference
400

when we continue to invest time, money, or effort into a situation because we've already invested so much into it

Sunk-cost Fallacy

500

When you have encoded a memory, but you can't retrieve it.  

Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon

500
Tendency to retain information more easily if we practice it repeatedly over time than if we practice it in one long session
What is spacing effect
500
An increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory
What is long- term potentiation (LTP)
500
The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information
What is retroactive interference
500

What is keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious?

repression