Types of Memory
This type of memory involves personal life experiences.
What is episodic memory?
Keeping information in memory over time is called this.
What is storage?
The correct order of memory storage in this model is: _________ → short-term → long-term.
What is sensory?
People tend to remember the first items on a list best due to extra rehearsal time.
What is the primacy effect?
This type of memory is a vivid, detailed recollection of an emotionally significant or surprising event, such as 9/11.
What is a flashbulb memory?
This type of memory is for skills like riding a bike or tying shoes.
What is procedural memory?
Getting information out of memory is called this.
What is retrieval?
What can you do to transfer sensory memories into short-term memory?
People tend to remember the last items on a list best because they are still in short-term memory.
What is the recency effect?
This study found that participants were more likely to remember personal circumstances of a traumatic event if they were physically closer to it.
What is Sharot et al. (2007)?
This type of memory involves facts and general knowledge.
What is semantic memory?
Putting information into memory is called this.
What is encoding?
Doing this can aid in transferring short term memories to long term.
rehearsal
This phenomenon describes the tendency to remember the first and last items on a list better than the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
Activation in this part of the brain is associated with detailed, emotionally intense memories.
What is the left amygdala?
This type of memory is conscious and intentional, such as remembering names.
What is explicit/declarative memory?
This model states that deeper, more meaningful processing leads to better memory.
What is the Levels of Processing model?
This type of sensory memory briefly stores visual information.
What is iconic memory?
This classic 1966 study tested memory for word lists by adding a distraction task before recall.
What is Glanzer and Cunitz (1966)?
This occurs when misleading information changes a memory.
What is the misinformation effect?
This type of memory occurs without conscious awareness and includes priming and skills.
What is implicit/nondeclarative memory?
Comparing a word to yourself is an example of this type of rehearsal.
What is elaborative rehearsal (or self-reference)?
This type of sensory memory briefly stores auditory information.
What is echoic memory?
In a famous experiment, when a 30-second distractor task was added before recall, this part of the serial position curve disappeared.
What is the recency effect?
This psychologist discovered how easily memory can be manipulated in eyewitness testimony.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?