Vocabulary
persistence of learning over time; involves encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
A progressive disease that destroys the brain's neurons, gradually impairing memory, thinking, language, and other cognitive functions, resulting in the complete inability to care for oneself; the most common form of dementia.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
The steps of the information processing model.
What is input, encoding, storage, retrieval, and output?
The theory that forgetting is caused by new information competing with or replacing old informatiion.
What is displacement?
the processing of information into the memory system--for example, by extracting meaning
Severe memory loss.
What is Amnesia?
According to this Multi Store Memory theory, this is required for sensory memories move to STM.
What is Attention?
This is comprised of information gather through the 5 senses...
What is sensory memory?
The inability to form new memories
What is anterograde amnesia?
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically.
What is chunking?
According to the Reconstructive memory theory, these can influence how we remember an event...
What are experience and expectation?
These can help trigger a memory...
What is a cue?
Define Priming
What is the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory?
The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.
What is rehearsal?
Braun et al. attempted to influence this type of memory...
What is the Autobiographical Memory?
A source of amnesia due to deterioration of the brain, can be caused by viral infections.
What is encephalitis?