Mini Chap 8 Flashcards
Anterograde amnesia
Inability to encode new memories form our experiences
Chunking
Organizing information into meaningful groupings allowing us to extend the span of short term memory
Context dependant learning
Superior retrieval of memories when the external context of the original memories matches retrieval context
Cryptomneisia
Failure to recognize that our ideas originated with someone else
Decay
Fading of information form memory over tine
Distributed versus massed practice
studying information in small increments over time (distributed) versus in large increments over a brief amount of time (massed)
Echoic memory
Auditory sensory memory
Elaborating rehearsal
Linking stimuli to each other in a meaningful way to improve retention of information in short term memory
Encoding
Process of getting information into our memory banks
Encoding specificity
Phenomenon of remembering something better when the conditions under which we retirive information are similar to the conditions under which we encoded it
Episodic memory
Recollection of events in our lives
Explicit memories
Memories we recall intentionally and of which we have conscious awareness
Flashbulb memory
Emotional memory that is extraordinarily vivid and detailed
Iconic memory
Visual sensory memory
Imagination inflation
Imaging an event inflates confidence in the likelihood that it occurred
Implicit memory
Memories we don’t deliberately remember or reflect on consciously
Infantile amnesia
Inability of adults to remember personal experiences that took place before an early age
Interference
Loss of information from memory because of competition from additional incoming information
Levels of processing
Depth of transforming information which influences how easily we remember it
long term memory
Relatively enduring retention of information stored regarding our facts, experiences and skills