Memory
Input of information into the memory system.
What is Encoding?
Regulates emotions, such as fear and aggression.
What is the Amygdala?
The loss of long-term memory that occurs as a result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma.
What is Amnesia?
What is Memory ?
a set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time
What is chunking ?
A type of strategy that you can use by organize information into manageable bits or chunks
Storage of brief sensory events, such as sights, sounds, and tastes.
What is Sensory Memory?
Is involved in memory, especially normal recognition memory and spatial memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
The formulation of new memories and the process of bringing up old memories.
What is Construction and Reconstruction?
What are the 3 stages of memory ? ( in order )
Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval
What can you use that could help you have information go from short-term memory to long-term memory?
Memory-enhancing strategies
A temporary storage system that processes incoming sensory memory.
What is Short-Term Memory?
An exceptionally clear recollection of an important event.
What is Flashbulb Memory?
After exposure to additional and possibly inaccurate information, a person may misremember the original event.
What is The Misinformation Effect?
For a memory to go into storage . It has to go through what three distinct stages which are ?
Sensory Memory, Short-Term Memory, and finally Long-Term Memory
What 2 scientists believe that information we process more deeply goes into long-term memory.
Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart
The continuous storage of information.
What is Long-Term Memory?
It is believed that strong emotions trigger the formation of strong memories, and weaker emotional experiences form weaker memories.
What is the Arousal Theory?
Describes lapses in memory caused by breaks in attention or our focus being somewhere else.
What is Absentmindedness?
What's the main difference between short term memory and long term memory ?
The storage system. Short term is a temporary storage system. As for long term its continuous storage of information.
Ex. setting the ABCs to music to memorize the alphabet is a example of what strategy ?
Mnemonic devices
The act of getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness.
What is Retrieval?
If part of one area of the brain involved in memory is damaged, another part of the same area can take over that memory function.
What is Equipotentiality Hypothesis?
When old information hinders the recall of newly learned information.
What is Proactive Interference?
Which of the three types of encoding was the best memory for verbal information?
semantic encoding
What type of strategy is it when it's more beneficial to make the material you are trying to memorize personally meaningful to you ?
Self-reference effect