General Memory
The three measures of memory
What is recall, recognition, and relearn?
Encoding on a basic level
What is shallow processing?
Organizing items in familiar manageable units
What is chunking?
Inability to retrieve old memories
What is retrograde amnesia?
Neurological disease associated with memory loss
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli (picture imagery)
What is iconic memory?
Memory aids
What is mnemonics?
Tendency for distributed study/practices to yield better long term retention
What is spacing effect?
The common saying for the eerie feeling that, “I’ve experienced this before.”
What is deja vu?
An inability to form new memories
What is anterograde amnesia?
Unconscious coding of incidental information
What is automatic processing?
This part of the brain facilitates formation of our procedural memories for skills
What is the basal ganglia?
Retention of learned skills or classical conditioned associations
What is implicit memory?
The lobe in which familiarity takes place
What is temporal lobe?
The concept Sigmund Freud believed in regarding memory though must psychologists do not agree with Freud
What is repression?
Information processing models
What is encoding, storage, retrieval
The three stages in the module preposed by Richard Atkinson and Richard Shriffrin
What is sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory?
Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort
What is effortful processing?
Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list.
What is the Serial Position effect?
When misleading information distorts one’s memory of an event
What is misinformation effect?
Demonstrating speed of relearning with non-sense syllables
Who is Hermann Ebbiinghaus?
Helps process explicit memories (location of the brain)
What is the hippocampus?
Critical factor to memory consolidation
What is sleep?
Previously learned information often facilites our learning of new information
What is positive transfer phenomenon?
the kind of memory that decays the fastest
What is iconic memory?