FAMILIAR FACES
Many people remember (or claim to remember) where they were when they learned of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential victory, in an example of this phenomenon.
What is a flashbulb memory?
Research has found improved recall improves when participants are in the same environment where they first learned a word list, also known as this.
What is context reinstatement?
In this finding, people tend to rapidly forget new information within hours of learning it before stabilizing.
What is the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve?
According to this concept, identification isn't determined by hard set rules, but instead by how similar something is to the average or how frequently it can be encountered.
What is graded membership?
The peg-word system is an example of this type of memory strategy.
What is a mnemonic strategy?
In 2015, news anchor Brian Williams claimed to have mixed up memories of his own safe helicopter landing and memories of helicopters near him being fired on, in an example of this phenomenon.
What is the misinformation effect?
This cognitive task helped establish the 7 ± 2 capacity.
What is the digit span/reading span/operation span task?
This effect disappears when a distractor activity is used between list presentation and tested recall.
What is the recency effect?
This type of category is bound by a few redundant commonalities, but many members of the category might not be immediately recognized as being in the same category.
What is a superordinate category?
This effect occurs when new memories are obscured by older, similar memories.
What is proactive interference?
After allegedly experiencing a minor road accident, author Agatha Christie claimed to have lost all of her memories of the incident and of her life leading up to the car crash, also known as this memory disturbance.
What is retrograde amnesia?
In this task, the distance between an example and a prototype can be measured by reaction time to a true/false statement.
What is a sentence-verification task?
According to this finding, autobiographical information is better remembered even when compared to other deeply processed information.
What is the self-reference effect?
This proposed organization of knowledge is formed around the smallest possible true-false statements that can be made about a concept.
What is a propositional network?
This predecessor to the working memory model suggests a relationship between short term and longterm memory.
What is the modal model?
Patient H.M.'s incredible ability to learn new tasks despite forgetting other information helped scientists understand the dissociation between these two concepts.
What are implicit and explicit memory?
In this finding, people are as likely to mistakenly recognize words that seem appropriate to the theme of a list as they are to recognize items from the original list.
What is the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm?
In this finding, older adults are more likely to remember their adolescent and young adulthood years than the years immediately surrounding it.
What is the reminiscence bump?
In a distributed network model, changes in this mental concept are associated with learning.
What are connection weights?
According to this principle, semantic context present at word learning can determine which cues will be most effective.
What is the encoding specificity principle?
This incredible ability to recall details and dates of otherwise mundane events in a person's life is known to affect about 60 people worldwide, including actress Marilu Henner.
What is highly superior autobiographical memory?
While poorly encoded words may be less commonly remembered in recognition tasks, they're likely to be just as quickly recognized as better encoded words due to this ability.
What is processing fluency?
The longer this is, the longer the reaction time will be for a given judgment.
What is an associative path?
Loss of knowledge, including anomia and visual agnosia, are associated with deficits in this brain region.
What are the lateral temporal lobes?
According to this organization of memory, implicit and explicit memory are both divided into subtypes, including episodic, semantic, procedural, priming, perceptual, and classical conditioning.
What is Squire's Taxonomy of Memory?