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Vocabulary
Disorders/Memory Errors
Information Processing
Theories/Effects
Miscellaneous
100
A picture memory lasting only a few seconds, associate with short-term memory storage.
What is Iconic memory?
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
Name the three steps for memory information processing model. In their order.
What is encoding, storage, and retrieval?
100
This is a form of short-term sensory storage based on hearing memory. It only lasts a few seconds if we do not rehearse the information.
What is Echoic memory?
100
This is where memory takes place.
Where is all over the brain?
200
To organize items into familiar, manageable units. Like breaking a long series of numbers into groups of recognizable units.
What is Chunking?
200
Severe memory loss.
What is Amnesia?
200
The unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency?
What is Automatic Processing?
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 a strategy to help us remember things by associating them in form of songs or acronyms, among other ways. ROYGBIV is one such example.
What is a mnemonic?
300
Memory that includes motor skills, habits, and other memories of how things are done. They can include classically conditioned responses to conditioned stimuli.
What is procedural memory or implicit memory?
300

The inability to remember some or all of your past, related to memories before a damaging event.

What is Retrograde Amnesia?

300

This type of processing is encoding semantically, based on the meaning of the words and tends to yield the best retention and memory. 

What is Deep Processing?

300
A memory phenomenon that involves the sensation of knowing that specific information, but you cannot remember it at that exact moment.
What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
300
This person proposed the idea of the forgetting curve.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
400
Familiar context or situations that activate memories.
What are Context Cues?
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

Memories of relatively trivial information are lost shortly after they are learned, especially when we don't rehearse them.

 Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve or effect?

400

What two parts of the brain are most involved in implicit memory? 

Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia

500
This is one type of declarative memory that stores memories of personal experiences and events.
What is Episodic Memory?
500
Remembering information but not the where, when, or how it was learned. Experienced while retaining the factual knowledge.
What is Source Amnesia ?
500
A type of encoding process that requires attention and conscious effort.
What is Effortful processing?
500
The theory that forgetting is caused by one memory competing with or replacing another.
What is the Interference Theory?
500

John has noticed that he does better on his chemistry exams when he takes them in the same seat that he sits in during class than when he sits in a different seat for exams. If he is properly prepared for each exam, then ______________ may explain his difference in scores. 

What is context effects?