Long-Term Memory Basics
This term refers to all information that is currently stored in your mind?
What is memory...
This process involves taking in information and representing it in memory?
What is encoding...
According to Craik & Lockhart, this type of processing, involving deep and meaningful analysis, leads to more accurate recall?
What is deep processing...
According to the encoding specificity principle, recall is better if this during retrieval is similar to this during encoding?
What is the context...
A memory task where you are asked directly to remember information, such as recalling a word list, is known as this?
What is an explicit memory task...
Long-term memory is defined as memory with this type of capacity for experience and information accumulated throughout life?
What is large capacity...
The act of keeping information in memory and determining where and for how long it is stored is called this?
What is storage...
This concept explains why thinking about a word’s meaning or relating it to yourself improves memory?
What is elaboration...
Research by Marian & Foley demonstrated that bilingual participants recalled information better when this matched the language of encoding?
What is the retrieval language...
This type of long-term memory involves knowledge of how to perform tasks, like driving?
What is procedural memory...
Accessing and locating information in memory storage is known as this?
What is retrieval...
Remembering information better because it relates to yourself is referred to as this effect?
What is the self reference effect...
Memory for personal events, like remembering details of a crime, is called this?
What is episodic memory...
A 1977 study by Rogers et al. showed that processing words with respect to this characteristic produced the best recall?
What is self reference?
Organizational knowledge about the world, such as knowing the 50 states, falls under this type of long-term memory?
What is semantic memory...