Long-Term
Short-Term
Retrieval
Reliability
Forgetting
100

Memories for skills, procedures, habits and conditioned responses.

What are procedural memories?

100

Ability to hold and manipulate information in conscious attention. 

What is short-term memory?

100

A stimulus for remembering.

What is a retrieval cue?

100

Assessment of the ability to correctly identify previously learned information.

What is recognition task?

100

Failure to process information into memory

What is encoding failure?

200

Memory that is not easily brought into conscious awareness.

What is implicit memory?

200

Active system that process information in short-term memory.

What is working memory?

200

The process of accessing stored information to make it available to conciousness.

What is memory retrieval?

200

The tendency of misleading information presented after an event to alter the memories of the event itself

What is misinformation effect?

200

The tendency for older or previously learned material to interfere with the learning of new material.

What is proactive interference?

300

Type of declaratory memory containing general knowledge.

What is semantic memory?

300

Practice of saying information over and over in ones head in order to maintain it in short-term memory.

What is maintenance rehearsal?

300

Information being held in the mind for later use.

What is memory storage?

300

Condition in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by memories that are factually incorrect but that they strongly believe.

What is false memory syndrome?

300

Reduction that is gradual in ability to receive previously learned information over time. 

What is decay theory?

400

Part of the brain associated with consolidation of information from short-term to long-term memory.

What is the hippocampus?

400

Recoding and reorganizing information.

What is chunking?

400

Memories that seem so vivid and exact because of the emotions felt at the time of the event.

What are flashbulb memories?

400

Strategy for enhancing memory.

What is a mnemonic?

400

Loss of the ability to form or recover memories for events occurring after an injury/trauma. 

What is anterograde amnesia?

500

Autobiographical memory.

What is episodic memory?

500

Man who came up with magical number seven, or the average amount of short term information a individual can remember at a time.

Who is George Miller?

500

Memories are stored in complex networks of interconnected brain cells. 

What are neuronal networks?

500

Memory is a process of reconstructing past events and experiences, not of replaying them exactly as they occurred. 

What is Constructionist Theory?

500

Certain memories that are not forgotten, but are kept hidden from awareness.

What is repression?