Long-Term
Memories for skills, procedures, habits and conditioned responses.
What are procedural memories?
Ability to hold and manipulate information in conscious attention.
What is short-term memory?
A stimulus for remembering.
What is a retrieval cue?
Assessment of the ability to correctly identify previously learned information.
What is recognition task?
Failure to process information into memory
What is encoding failure?
Memory that is not easily brought into conscious awareness.
What is implicit memory?
Active system that process information in short-term memory.
What is working memory?
The process of accessing stored information to make it available to conciousness.
What is memory retrieval?
The tendency of misleading information presented after an event to alter the memories of the event itself
What is misinformation effect?
The tendency for older or previously learned material to interfere with the learning of new material.
What is proactive interference?
Type of declaratory memory containing general knowledge.
What is semantic memory?
Practice of saying information over and over in ones head in order to maintain it in short-term memory.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
Information being held in the mind for later use.
What is memory storage?
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?
Reduction that is gradual in ability to receive previously learned information over time.
What is decay theory?
Part of the brain associated with consolidation of information from short-term to long-term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
Recoding and reorganizing information.
What is chunking?
Memories that seem so vivid and exact because of the emotions felt at the time of the event.
What are flashbulb memories?
Strategy for enhancing memory.
What is a mnemonic?
Loss of the ability to form or recover memories for events occurring after an injury/trauma.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Autobiographical memory.
What is episodic memory?
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?
Memories are stored in complex networks of interconnected brain cells.
What are neuronal networks?
Memory is a process of reconstructing past events and experiences, not of replaying them exactly as they occurred.
What is Constructionist Theory?
Certain memories that are not forgotten, but are kept hidden from awareness.
What is repression?