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A sensory memory store for visual information.
What is ICONIC MEMORY?
Earlier processes are successfully retrieved and these processes help with performance of the current task.
What is TRANSFER-APPROPRIATE PROCESSING?
A type of memory that is processed in the anterior frontal temporal lobe.
What is SEMANTIC MEMORY?
Autobiographical memories that are used to help us complete current tasks have a __________ function.
What is a DIRECTIVE FUNCTION?
Having few autobiographical memories before the age of 5.
What is INFANTILE AMNESIA?
A researcher who proposed the triarchic theory of memory stating there are episodic, semantic, and procedural memories.
Who is TULVING?
A component of working memory that controls the allocation of attentional resources to slave systems.
What is the CENTRAL EXECUTIVE?
An abstract concept that spreads through a semantic network and temporarily heightens the state of accessibility for a memory node.
What is ACTIVATION?
A procedure in which one is instructed to make a recording of events when a beeper alarm goes off.
What is the REVISED DIARY METHOD?
A mnemonic that involves paired-associate learning (e.g. 1 = bun)
What is the PEGWORD METHOD?
A noninvasive brain imaging technique that has good temporal resolution but poor spatial resolution.
What is an ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG)?
Learning without intention.
What is INCIDENTAL LEARNING?
In a Rosch's hierarchical model, the concept "TABLE" would be considered a _______________ level concept.
What is BASIC?
The most common function of autobiographical memories according to Hyman and Faries (1992).
What is SOCIAL FUNCTION?
A study that examined learning of smell preference of infants by exposing them to ___________ while in utero.
What is ANISEED?
The impaired recall of similar sounding words.
What is the PHONOLOGICAL SIMILARITY EFFECT?
Researcher who developed the embedded process model.
Who is COWAN?
What is retroactive interference?
A tendency to shift towards more positive memories as we age.
What is POSITIVITY BIAS?
What theory of autobiographical remembering proposes that an elaborative style is more common in Western cultures and associated with opportunities to rehearse memories.
What is SOCIAL CULTURAL THEORY?
The researcher who determined that visual sensory memory lasts less than 1 sec.
Who is SPERLING?
An explanation for the distributed practice effect that proposes the second encounter of information cues the effortful retrieval of the initial encoding experience
What is the STUDY-PHASE RETRIEVAL hypothesis?
The tendency for target recall to be impaired by the provision of retrieval cues drawn from the same set of items in memory.
What is PART-SET CUEING IMPAIRMENT?
Improved recall after repeated attempts at retrieval of the same material.
What is HYPERMENSIA?
What neurotransmitter is depleted in those who are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease?
What is ACETYLCHOLINE?