Memory (General)
The processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information
What is memory?
Holds the information that we are currently working on or thinking about
What is STM?
What is LTM?
The three types are retrograde, anterograde, and infantile
What is amnesia?
Blocking the recall of anxiety arousing memories
The three steps are: encode, store, retrieve
What is the Information Processing Model?
What is chunking?
The effect whereby recall is influenced by a word's position in a series of items
What is the serial position effect?
Memory loss for events after the onset of amnesia
What is anterograde amnesia?
Remembering to do things or perform an activity in the future
What is Prospective Memory?
Includes: iconic, echoic, and hepatic memory
What is Sensory Memory?
The process of representing sounds as a code
phonological encoding
superior recall of early words (it is likely the STM is able to enter this into LTM)
Memory loss for events prior to the onset of amnesia
What is retrograde amnesia?
The distortion of a memory by misleading post-event information
This model includes: sensory memory, STM, LTM
What is Three Component Model?
The process of representing the meaning of the stimulus as a code
semantic encoding
Superior recall of most recent words (probably due to rehearsal in the STM)
What is the recency effect?
The reason that people typically don't have memories of events occurring before age 4
What is infantile amnesia?
Past learned material interferes with new material
What is Proactive Interference?
Proposed the Three Component Model
Who are Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968)?
What people can do once information leaves our sensory memory so that it can be retained
A type of rehearsal where you focus on the meaning of information or relate it to other knowledge
What is elaborative rehearsal?
What is source confusion?
Newly acquired information interferes with old information
What is Retroactive Interference?