What is the mental function and processes by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved; information stored in the mind
What is Memory
100
The translation of information into a form that can be stored in memory
What is Encoding
100
Information that is more easily retrieved in the context or situation in which it was encoded and stored
What is context-dependent memories
100
The sensory register that briefly holds traces of aural stimuli.
What is echoic memory?
100
Process that occurs when new information in short-term memory pushes or crowds out and replaces what was already there.
The failure to remember events that occurs prior to physical trauma because of the effects of the trauma.
What is interference?
What is retrograde amnesia?
200
What is the memory of specific experienced events
What is Episodic Memory
200
The maintenance of encoded information over time
What is Storage
200
information that is more easily retrieved when one is in the same physiological or emotional state as when the memory was originally encoded or learned
What is state-dependent memories
200
Also called working memory, memory that hold information briefly before it is either stored in long-term memory of forgotten.
What is short-term memory?
200
The type of storage of memory capable of large and relatively permanent storage.
Inability to form new memories because of brain trauma.
What is long-term memory?
What is anterograde amnesia?
300
Memory of general knowledge and information
What is Semantic Memory
300
The repetition of new information in and attempt to remember it
What is maintenance rehearsal
300
The immediate, initial recording of sensory information in the memory system.
What is sensory memory?
300
The tendency to recall the initial item or items in a series.
What is primary effect?
300
An idea or mental framework that helps one organize and interpret information.
The inability to remember events that occurred during one's early years (before age three).
What is schema?
What is infantile amnesia?
400
Memory of specific information
What is Explicit memory
400
Methods for remembering new information by creating meaningful links to information already known
What is Elaborative Rehearsal
400
The sensory register that briefly hols mental images of visual stimuli.
What is iconic memory?
400
Tendency for people to change their opinions of others based on recent interactions.
What is recency effect?
400
A memory process in which one identifies objects or events that have previously been encountered.
Non immediate retrieval of learned information.
What is recognition?
What is recall?
500
Memory in which you are not consciously aware; generally includes skills and procedures one has learned
What is Implicit Memory
500
The process of recalling information from memory storage
What is retrieval
500
The maintenance of a very detailed visual memory over long periods of time.
What is eidetic imagery?
500
The mental process of organizing information into meaningful chunks or units.
What is chunking?
500
Learning something a second time, usually in less time then it was originally learned.
Disintegration; in psychology, the fading away of memory over time.