Who are you?
Inputting information into memory through automatic and effortful processing.
What is "encoding"?
Memories learned outside our awareness and sustain over time.
What are "episodic" memories?
Strong emotions trigger strong memories, whereas, weaker emotions trigger weaker memories
What is the "Arousal Theory"?
New information gets in the way, or hinders, the recall of new information
What is "Retroactive interference"?
What is "chunking"?
Pertaining to words and their meanings.
What is "semantic"?
Memories in which we consciously try to remember, recall, and report.
What are "explicit" memories?
Part of the brain responsible for normal recognition and spatial memory; gives memories meaning and connections; memory consolidation and transfer of new learning happens here
What is the "hippocampus"?
Exceptionally clear recollection of an important event.
What is "Flashbulb Memory"?
Ie. Cues for memory retrieval like Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Order of Operations) and My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles (Order of the Planets)
What are "mnemonic devices"?
The three basic functions that move information into memory.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
Temporary storage system processing incoming sensory memory in which decay and interference cause issues.
What is "short-term" memory?
The part of the brain that is primarily responsible for implicit memories.
What is the "cerebellum"?
Refers to the inability to remember new information caused by trauma.
Mnemonic devices, chunking, elaborative rehearsal, expressive writing and saying information out loud
What are "memory enhancing strategies"?
Getting information out of memory storage and back into conscious awareness through recall, recognition, and relearning.
What is "retrieval"?
Memories learned outside our awareness in which they cannot be consciously recalled.
What are "implicit" memories?
The main job of this part of the brain is to regulate emotional information; storage is influenced by stress hormones.
What is the "Amygdala"?
The idea that memories fade over time
What is "transience"?
Repetition of information for preferred learning
What is "rehearsal"?
Creating a permanent record of information by going through sensory, short-term, and long term memories.
What is "storage"?
Storage of valuable information involving brief sensory events -sights, sounds, and tastes.
What is "sensory memory"?
Part of the brain in which is underdeveloped until roughly age 25 and is responsible for personality; responsible for encoding, retrieval, perceptual and semantic tasks
What is the "prefrontal cortex"?
A cause of errors in memory based on stereotypes and hindsight; misinformation from an external source leading to false memories
What is "suggestibility"?
Study technique in which a student distributes study effort over a period of short sessions over time
What is "distributed practice"/"spaced practice"?