Amnes-huh?
Difficulty or inability in forming new long-term memories after an injury
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
False memories created from incorrect information
What is the misinformation effect?
Remembering things from the beginning of the list better
What is the primacy effect?
The first step of the memory process.
What is proactive interference?
Inability to recall events of the past before brain injury.
What is Retrograde Amnesia
Feeling like a word is known, but just out of reach
What is the tip-of-the-tongue effect?
What is the Recency effect?
Holding information for a short time by mentally repeating it.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
New information messes with the recall of old information
What is retroactive interference?
The standard lack of memories before the age of three
What is Infantile Amnesia?
memories reshaped after discussion with others
What is memory reconstruction?
The tendency to forget the things in the middle of the list
What is the serial position effect?
Processing information based on its meaning
What is Deep Processing?
Retention improved by doing shorter study sessions over several days
What is the spacing effect?
The brain structure critical to formation of new memory.
What is the hippocampus?
A vivid and emotional memory that is strong, although not always accurate
What is a Flashbulb memory?
Holding verbal information temporarily
What is the phonological loop?
Forgetting the information because of a lack of focus or attention
What is encoding failure?
A figure showing that information is forgotten more rapidly at first, then slows down.
What is the forgetting curve?
Remembering old skills, but not recent conversations.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
Imagining an event occurred increases confidence that it did occur
What is Imagination Inflation?
What is prospective memory?
When people confidently remember events that never happened for a variety of reasons
What is confabulation?
Connecting words to sentences and definitions
What is deep processing?