Memory Processing
lobe of brain that processes incoming information for explicit memories (right: visually-oriented, left: language-based)
what is the frontal lobe?
the memory for tasks that need to be completed in the future
what is prospective memory?
disease with retrograde (cannot retrieve old memories), anterograde (cannot form new memories), and source (attributes a reassembled memory during retrieval it to the wrong source) types
what is amnesia?
memory that relies on going back to the physical place where memory was formed
what is context-dependent memory?
retrieval process that produces a partial response (suggests that forgetting is often a retrieval failure more than an encoding/storage failure)
what is tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
registers and temporarily holds elements of explicit memories before moving them to other brain regions for long-term storage
what is the hippocampus?
clear memories of an emotionally significant moment/event
what are thought suppression (conscious) and psychological repression (unconscious)?
memory that involves greater ease of recollection while in same state of consciousness as was when the memory was formed
what is state-dependent memory?
name both: idea that prior learning interferes with recall of new info; idea that new learning disrupts recall of old info
what are proactive interference and retroactive interference, respectively?
helps store (implicit) memory of learned physical behaviors/activities
what is the cerebellum?
neural basis for learning and forming long-term memories
what is long-term potentiation?
incorporating misleading info into one’s memory of an event
what is the misinformation effect?
tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one’s current mood
what is mood congruency?
idea that current learning can be bolstered by former learning
what is positive transfer?
involved in motor movement and help form procedural memories for skills (implicit memory)
what is the basal ganglia?
the three components of measuring memory
what are recall, recognition, and relearn?
feelings of familiarity with a stimulus without clear idea/details of where we experienced it before
what is deja vu?
accounts for our tendency to recall best the last items studied from a list as part of the serial-position effect
what is the recency effect?
idea that associating too many specific pieces of info with a single concept makes it slower to retrieve an individual piece of info
what is the fan effect?
phenomenon in which but we cannot remember learning many skills/associations from the first 3 years of life
what is infantile amnesia?
accounts for our tendency to recall best the last and first items studied from a list
what is the serial-position effect?
names both a retention and forgetting curve
who is Ebbinghaus?
accounts for our tendency to recall best the first items studied from a list as part of the serial-position effect
what is the primacy effect?
rehearsing one or two of many memories associated with a single cue and forgetting the others
what is retrieval-induced forgetting?