General Memory
The type of memory that is more easily described or explained to others.
What is explicit memory?
The process of grouping information together into meaningful blocks.
What is chunking?
Miller's Magic number (7+-2) applies to this part of one's memory storage capacity.
What is short-term memory?
This retrieval process provides multiple cues.
What is recognition?
The situation where new information interferes with the retrieval of old information.
What is retroactive interference?
The middle level of processing where one looks to the auditory aspects of a word/concept.
What is phonemic processing?
The items that aid in encoding information into working and long term memory.
What are mnemonic devices?
The inability to create new memories.
What is anterograde amnesia?
A psychological phenomenon that describes how retrieving information from memory can improve long-term retention
What is testing effect?
This shows that losing information occurs rapidly after initial learning and levels off after time.
What is the forgetting curve?
The three steps to the memory process.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
The concept that predicts information presented at the beginning of a list and at the end will be more memorable.
What is serial position effect?
The inability for one to be able to recall information from one's life before the age of three.
What is infantile amnesia?
When memories are easier to retrieve because you are in the same environment as when it was encoded.
What is context-dependent memory?
An inability to retrieve a basic concept when one feels as if it's just short of their reach.
What is tip-of-the-tongue phenomena?
The type of memory related to future actions
What is prospective memory?
Used to aid in easier encoding where one links ideas to well known locations.
What is the method of loci?
The rare, select ability to recall every detail of one's life.
What is highly superior autobiographical memory?
When memories are easier to retrieve because you are in the same mental condition when information was encoded.
What is state-dependent memory?
A phenomenon that occurs when a person's memory of an event is altered by misleading information.
What is the misinformation effect?
The process by which synaptic connections between neurons become stronger with frequent activation.
What is long-term potentiation?
A process that can cause significant differences in encoding and memory consolidation depending on when/how the information is encoded.
What is the spacing effect?
What is maintanence rehearsal?
When one tries to understand why they made a particular decision.
What is metacognition?
This occurs when information does not move to one's long-term memory.
What is an encoding failure?