This type of memory is an immediate and brief sensory recording of sensory information in the memory system. Ex: Light, Your car turning on, etc.
What is Sensory Memory
100
This effect is when you retain information better when the rehearsal is distributed over time.
What is the Spacing Effect
100
These devices are memory aids that use vivid imagery and/or organizational devices. Ex: PEMDAS, peg-words, and method of loci.
What are Mnemonic Devices
100
This happens when there is an increase in brief rapid stimulation and an increase in neuron firing. It is the basis for learning and memory. Hint: LTP
What is Long-term Potentiation
100
This type of amnesia is when you do not recall anything from ages (generally) 1-5 because you lack the experience to develop memories.
What is infantile amnesia
200
This type of memory holds information briefly before it is stored/forgotten. Ex: Phone Numbers
What is Short-term Memory
200
This effect is when you better recall the last and first items on a list better than those in the middle.
(Last Items: Recency effect)
(First Items: Primacy effect)
What is the Serial Positioning Effect
200
This is when you organize information into meaningful units so as to recall them more easily. Ex: Remembering 19869876 as 1986 and 9876 (the years)
What is Chunking
200
This part of the brain deals with implicit memory (procedural memory) that encompasses our skill and conditioning effects.
What is the Cerebellum
200
This happens when information does not commit to long term memory due to lack of attention.
What is encoding failure
300
This memory is relatively permanent and is the limitless storehouse of the memory system. Ex: Skills, Experiences, etc.
What is Long-term Memory
300
This effect is when we better remember information that we associate with ourselves than those associated with others.
What is the Self-Reference Effect
300
This is when a few broad concepts are divided/subdivided into narrower concepts or facts.
What is Heirarchy
300
This part of the brain deals with Explicit memory (declarative memory) that encompasses our conscious knowledge such as facts and experiences.
What is the Hippocampus
300
This is when new learning interferes with past learned information, especially when they're similar. (Plays and aspect in storage decay of memory overtime.)
What is interference
400
This "short-term" memory involvers conscious and active processing of information from external events or long term memory in a process known as rehearsal.
What is Working Memory
400
This effect is our tendency to recall events more positively than we evaluated them at the time.
What is Rosy-Retrospection
400
Similar to iconic memory (our fleeting photographic memory) this type of memory stores our fleeting auditory stimuli.
What is Echoic Memory
400
This part of the brain boosts activity in the memory forming areas. The result is seared memories of important events and disruption in encoding of neutral events.
What is the Amygdala
400
Not to be confused with encoding failure (where the information is not in the memory to begin with) this sin of forgetting comes from lack of cues in information to retrieve stored memories, causing a block in recall.
What is retrieval failure
500
This type of memory processing is the unconscious encoding of incidental information. Ex: Space, time, word meanings in conversation. Hint: Opposite of Effortful Processing.
What is Automatic Processing
500
This effect incorporates misleading information into ones memory of an event.
What is the Misinformation Effect
500
This term developed by George Miller states how we can only contain seven pieces of information within our short-term memory--plus or minus 2.
What is Magic Number 7
500
This is an increase in the effectiveness of the synapse. The result is less prompting to send neurotransmitters with rapid stimulation of the memory-circuit connections. Leads to LTP and possible receptor site increase.
What is Synaptic Change
500
The opposite of proactive (forward acting), this type of amnesia disrupts learning because of previously learned information. Ex: forgetting new names due to old names.