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Vocabulary
Disorders/Memory Errors
Information Processing
Theories/Effects
Miscellaneous
100
When new learning disrupts the recall of previously-learned information.
What is retroactive interference?
100
A progressive disease that destroys the brain's neurons, gradually impairing memory, thinking, language, and other cognitive functions, resulting in the complete inability to care for oneself; the most common form of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
100
The three parts for the box information processing model.
What is encoding, storage, and retrieval?
100
The theory that forgetting is caused by one memory competing with or replacing another.
What is the interference theory?
100
This is where memory takes place.
Where is all over the brain?
200
The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.
What is Proactive Interference?
200
Severe memory loss.
What is Amnesia?
200
Define Automatic Processing.
What is unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequence?
200
The tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than items in the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
200
This is where many long term memories are stored through consolidation.
What is the hippocampus?
300
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What are schemas?
300
Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined.
What is source amnesia?
300
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically.
What is chunking?
300
A memory phenomenon that involves the sensation of knowing that specific information is stored in long-term memory, but being temporarily unable to retrieve it.
What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
300
This person proposed the idea of the forgetting curve.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
400
Define Priming
What is the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory?
400
Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.
What is the misinformation effect?
400
The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.
What is rehearsal?
400
Proposes that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time.
What is the decay theory?
400
The empirical finding that people over 40 years old have enhanced memory for events from adolescence and early adulthood, compared to other periods of their lives.
What is the Reminiscance Bump?
500
The false recollection of episodic memory, filling in gaps.
What is confabulation?
500
A disorder that usually occurs in chronic alcoholic where the subject is unable to form new episodic memories but retain some implicit memories.
What is Korsakoff's Syndrome?
500
Define effortful processing
What is encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.
500
The theory that information learned in a particular state of mind (e.g., depressed, happy, somber) is more easily recalled when in that same state of mind.
What is state dependent memory?
500
A cognition and memory psychologist. She studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?