Chapters 1-3
A memory system that helps us store information and complete complex tasks.
What is WORKING MEMORY?
Visual processing of objects is associated with the ______________ stream.
What is VENTRAL?
A subtype of schema that involves knowledge of sequence.
What are SCRIPTS?
A type of amnesia that is psychological and lasts a few hours or days.
What is PSYCHOGENIC FUGUE?
Smaller stature due to malnutrition.
What is STUNTED GROWTH?
Tulving proposes that _____________memory involves mental time travel.
What is EPISODIC MEMORY?
A system of attentional control that is directly linked to the central executive.
What is the SUPERIVISORY ATTENTIONAL SYSTEM (SAS)?
The tendency for the retrieval of some target items from LTM to impair the ability to recall other related items.
What is RETRIEVAL-INDUCED FORGETTING (RIF)?
The construction of a false memory as a result of exposure to inaccurate information post-event.
What is the MISINFORMATION EFFECT?
A memory technique involving the construction of a story that links words in correct order.
What is STORY MNEMONIC?
temporal distance between an item and its nearest competitor known as __________helps to explain the long-term recency effect.
What is the Discrimination Ratio?
Application of __________ results in reduced accessibility of a memory trace.
What is INHIBITION?
A term that describes the loss of episodic details over time.
What is SEMANTICIZATION?
The tendency for those who are 40+ years of age to recall autobiographical memories from approximately 15-30.
What is the REMINISENCE BUMP?
The finding that long-term retention is best when the information is repeatedly tested during learning.
What is THE TESTING EFFECT?
A unitary model by Nairne.
What is FEATURE MODEL?
A process of encoding such that a memory trace becomes stable and resistant to forgetting.
What is CONSOLIDATION?
Collins and Loftus' proposed model of semantic organization.
What is the SPREADING-ACTIVATION MODEL?
A disorder characterized by a smaller hippocampi and difficulty with suppression of memories.
What is POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)?
Impaired ability to retrieve old memories.
What is retrograde amnesia?
What is ARTICULATORY SUPPRESSION?
The _____________hypothesis states that we pay less attention to information we recently encountered and thus, we do not process this information well.
What is the DEFICIENT PROCESSING HYPOTHESIS?
The recognition outcome when a lure is identified to be "new"
What is CORRECT REJECTION?
A procedure used to study the ability to suppress retrieval of a memory when there are reminders.
What is the THINK/NOTHINK procedure?
A substance that breaks down Acetylcholine.
What is the CHOLINESTERASE?