Show:
Vocabulary
Memory Errors
Information Processing
Theories/Effects
Miscellaneous
100
When new learning disrupts the recall of previously-learned information.
What is retroactive interference?
100

Attributing an event we experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined, to the wrong source. 

Source Amnesia

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

a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, such as on a multiple-choice test

Recognition

200
The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.
What is Proactive Interference?
200

Measures the amount of previously learned information that subjects can recall or recognize across time. 

Forgetting Curve

200

The unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency

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 where many long term memories are stored through consolidation.
What is the hippocampus?
300

mental representation of an object, scene or event

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

The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory?

Priming

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

An increase in a synapse's firing potential after a brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory.

Long-term potentiation

500

The processing of many aspects of a stimulus or problem simultaneously; the brain's natural mode of information processing for many functions, including vision.



Parallel Processing 

500

An inability to form new memories

Anterograde Amnesia

500

Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.

Effortful Processing

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?