Memories for skills, procedures, habits and conditioned responses.
What are procedural memories?
100
Ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input.
What is selective attention?
100
A stimulus for remembering.
What is a retrieval cue?
100
Retrieval of memories in which those memories are altered, revised, or influenced by newer information
What is constructive processing?
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
Tendency of information at the beginning or end of a body of information to be remembered more accurately than information in the middle.
What is serial position effect?
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
Person thinks that he or she has recognized (or even recalled) something or someone but in fact does not have that something or someone in memory.
What is a false positive?
300
Tendency to falsely believe, through revision of older memories to include newer information, that one could have correctly predicted the outcome of an event
What is hindsight bias?
300
Loss of memory due to the passage of time, during which the memory trace is not used
What is decay/disuse?
400
Two parts of the brain associated with consolidation of information from short-term to long-term memory.
What are the hippocampus and cortex?
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
The creation of inaccurate or false memories through the suggestion of others, often while the person is under hypnosis
What is false memory syndrome?
400
This graph clearly shows that forgetting happens quickly within the first hour after learning the lists and then tapers off gradually.
What is the curve of forgetting?
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
Researcher that worked on eyewitnesses and their ability to recall/not recall accurate information.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
500
Susceptibility to hypnosis, symptoms of depression, and the tendency to exhibit odd behavior and unusual beliefs.
(Hint: What do they predict?)
What are the variables that predict a higher false recall and recognition response?
500
Memory expert or someone with exceptional memory ability.