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What is memory?
How do we form it?
How do we retrieve it?
Why does it fail?
100
Another word for thinking.
What is cognition
100
One of the three basic tasks. It is modifying information to fit the preferred format for the memory system
What is encoding
100
Presenting brief sensory impressions of of stimuli
What is sensory memory
100
A retrieval method in which one must identify present stimuli as having been previously presented.
What is recognition
100
Schacter's claims for memory failure
What is the 7 sins of memory
200
When you are thinking about thinking
What is metacognition
200
It means to retain encoded information over time
What is storage
200
Also known as Short term memory
What is working memory
200
Doctrine saying that memory is encoded and stored with specific cues related to context.
What is Encoding specificity principle
200
Previously learned information prevents learning and remembering new information.
What is proactive interference
300
A sudden emergence of a solution
What is insight
300
It means the recovery of information from memory
What is retrieval
300
Largest capacity for memory
What is LTM
300
Memory retrieved that matches one's mood
What is mood-congruent memory
300
A form of interference related to the sequence in which information is presented.
What is serial position effect
400
A mental representation of objects drawn from our experiences
What is natural concepts
400
Often referred to as photographic memory
What is eidetic imagery
400
Organizing into smaller meaningful units.
What is chunking
400
The inability to recall a word while knowing it is in memory
What is TOT phenomenon
400
Technique for improving memory
What is mnemonic
500
Concepts defined by rules
What is artificial concepts
500
Any system that encodes, stores, retrieves.
What is memory
500
Memory in LTM for how to get things done
What is procedural memory
500
One must reproduce previously presented information. Isn't that what we are doing here?
What is recall
500
Memory problem in which unwanted memory can not be put out of mind.
What is persistence