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Information Processing
Theories/Effects
Forgetting
Miscellaneous
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

Ebbinghouse's research suggested that most forgetting happens ________.

What is quickly after learning it?
100

The type of memory that handles facts and information. 

What is declarative memory?

200

The processing of information into the memory system

What is encoding?

200

The theory that suggests that memory is enhanced by forming both semantic and visual codes?

What is duel-coding theory?

200

What is the storage capacity of the long term memory?

Seemingly unlimited
200

The type of memory that handles motor skills, conditioned responses, and emotional memories

What is nondeclarative memory?

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

When an individual's memory for an event is altered by the later introduction of inaccurate or misleading information, it is referred to as the _________.

Misinformation effect

300

The hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codes stored in long term memory is known as

What is consolidation?

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

Information loss due to ineffective encoding

What is pseudoforgetting?

400

Damage to which of the following is MOST likely to cause deficits in long-term memory?

What is the hippocampus?  

500

Unusually vivid and detailed recollections of momentous events

What are flashbulb memories?

500

The three parts of Atkinson and Shiffrin's model of memory

What are sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory?

500

What is Freud's idea of banishing from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.

Repression

500

The process which explains why when we think of one word, such as "mask" it triggers other concepts like "lung" and "cough"

What is a semantic network?