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Memory
Storage & Retrieval
Forgetting & Memory Construction
Thinking
Popery
100
Learning that has persisted over time; information that has been acquired, stored, and can be retrieved.
What is memory?
100
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
100
A scene from the movie Memento which depicts this kind of disability.
What is anterograde amnesia?
100
Mental groupings of similar objects, events, ideas, and people.
What is a concept?
100

When we perceive motion even though nothing is actually moving...

Apparent Movement 

200
When our dual-track brain processes many things simultaneously.
What is parallel processing?
200

Brain structure involved in memory of motor movements.

Cerebellum

200
When prior learning disrupts your recall of new information.
What is proactive interference?
200
Narrows the available solutions to determine the best solution.
What is convergent thinking?
200

Processing through meaning of the information...

Semantic
300

A memory in which you retrieve information about the first time you traveled outside of the country.

Explicit, Episodic

300

The brain's equivalent of a "save" button for explicit memories.

What is the hippocampus?

300

Most forgetting happens after....

Initial learning. 

300

Navigating a familiar room in the dark would be an example of...

Top-down processing

300

Both eyes working together to determine depth...

Binocular Cues

400
Awareness of your own cognitive process

Metacognition

400
After this has occurred, passing an electric current through the brain won't disrupt old memories.
What is long-term potentiation?
400

Psychodynamic perspective would say these help repress traumatic memories. 

Defense mechanisms

400

Fitting new information into existing schema without changing the schema. 

Assimilation

400

An orange would be an example of what from the category of fruit?

Prototype

500

Part of your working memory that acts as a temporary storage system that brings info together from various sources to create a unified memory.

Episodic Buffer

500

Retrieval being improved when you are in the same environment as where you first learned the information. 

Context-dependent memory

500
When Piaget attributed a memory to his own experiences instead of his nursemaid's stories, he experienced an example of this.
What is source amnesia?
500

If you're solving a series of similar math problems, you might automatically apply the same strategy to a new problem even if it requires a different approach, this is an example of...

What is a mental set?

500

Information being gathered with little or no conscious effort

Automatic Processing