Memory
This is the process by which we recollect prior experiences, information, and skills learned in the past.
Memory
This is the memory of a specific event.
This memory is the immediate recording of data that enters our senses.
sensory memory
decay
Relating information to existing knowledge is also called what?
elaborative rehearsal
This is a vivid and enduring memory often associated with a significant or emotional event.
Flashbulb memory
This is the memory of facts, words, concepts, etc.
Sematic Memory
What memory holds mental traces of sounds?
Echoic Memory
This is the rare severe memory loss that is often caused by trauma to the brain.
Amnesia
How long does it take for sensory memory to decay?
seconds
What is explicit memory?
Memory of specific information that we have to consciously work to remember.
What is Implicit Memory?
Information we remember unconsciously and effortlessly. Includes learned habits and skills.
What is the primacy and recency effect?
The ability to better remember the first and last items in a series of information.
This is when our minds purposely forget information that disturbs us.
Repression
Similar to maintenance rehearsal, this is using repetition to transfer information into your short and long term memories.
This is linking information to what we already know.
Elaborative rehearsal
Repeatedly saying or thinking about information to keep it active in your memory.
These are the mental representations we form of the world by organizing bits of information.
Schemas
What is infantile amnesia?
Forgetting episodic memories from our early lives
This is when people forget the period leading up to an injury.
Retrograde Amnesia
What does context dependent retrieval mean?
Remembering is easier when the retrieval environment matches the learning environment.
What does state dependent retrieval mean?
Remembering is easier when mood during retrieval matches your mood when the information was encoded.
What is photographic memory also called?
Eidetic
This is when people lose the ability to store new memories
What is an example of a Mnemonic device?
Student examples/ songs, jingles, acronyms, sayings, etc