Chapters 1-3
A memory system that helps us store information and complete complex tasks.
What is WORKING MEMORY?
While spatial visual processing is associated with the dorsal region of the brain, object memory is associated with the ______________ region.
What is VENTRAL?
A subtype of schema that involves knowledge of sequence.
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?
A technique that helps distinguish various structures in the brain (e.g. white matter from gray matter) by varying the frequency of a radio pulse.
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)?
Mechanisms of suppression that reduce the accessibility of a memory trace (opposite of activation).
What is INHIBITION?
Collins and Loftus' proposed theory of semantic organization.
What is SPREADING-ACTIVATION THEORY?
The tendency for those who are 40+ years of age to recall autobiographical memories from approximately 15-30.
What is the REMINISENCE BUMP?
A substance that breaks down Acetylcholine.
What is CHOLINESTERASE?
A process of encoding such that a memory trace becomes stable and resistant to forgetting.
What is CONSOLIDATION?
A term that describes the loss of episodic details over time.
A disorder characterized by a smaller hippocampi and difficulty with suppression of memories.
What is MISINFORMATION EFFECT?
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 THINKNO THINK procedure?
The finding that long-term retention is best when the information is repeatedly tested during learning.
What is the TESTING EFFECT?
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)?
A disorder characterized by a smaller hippocampi and difficulty with suppression of memories.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
A memory technique involving the construction of a story that links words in correct order.
What is STORY MNEMONIC?