Encoding Memory
What is the retention of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and “declare”. Also known as ”declarative memory”.
Explicit Memories
What is a semantic memory?
explicit memory of facts and general knowledge; one of our two conscious memory systems
What is the process of activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing ones perception, memory, or response.
Priming
The backward-acting disruptive effect of newer learning on the recall of old information.
Retroactive Interference
What is the process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again?
Reconsolidation
What is the processing that requires attention and conscious effort.
Effort
Flashbulb memory
What is the idea that cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping us recall it.
Encoding Specificity Principle
What is the inability to retrieve information from one’s past
Retrograde amnesia
What is the effect that occurs when misleading information has distorted ones memory of an effect?
Misinformation Effect
What is the processing that is the unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well learned information, such as word meanings.
Automatic
What is the increase in a cell’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation: a neural basis for learning and memory
Long-term potentiation
What is the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood.
Mood congruent
What is the inability to form new memories
Anterograde amnesia
“Ive experienced this before.”
Deja vu
What are memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices.
Mnemonics
What parts of the brain are dedicated to explicit memory formation?
Frontal lobes and Hippocampus
Emotional arousal causes an outpouring of _____ hormones.
Stress
The forward acting disruptive effect of older learning on the recall of new information
Proactive Interference
_____ are susceptible to the misinformation effect, but if questioned in neutral words they understand, they can accurately recall events and people involved in them.
Children
Also referred to as a retrieval practice effect, it is enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than simply rereading information.
Testing effect
What parts of the brain are dedicated To implicit memory formation?
Cerebellum and basal ganglia
What activates associations that help us retrieve memories: this process may occur without our awareness, as it does in priming.
External Cues
The basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
Repress
What is the faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined. This, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories.
Source Amnesia