Ch.9 Part 2 Flashcards
Retention curve.
Relearning faster if you rehearse it.
Rehearsal time increases, relearning time decreases.
Ebbinghaus
Relearning
A memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time.
The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.
Priming
Context effects
Putting yourself back in the context where you experienced something can prime your memory retrieval.
That eerie sense that “I’ve experienced this before.” Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.
Deja vu
Mood-congruent memory
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones current good or bad mood.
Forward acting. The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.
Ex. Not remembering your new password, only your old password.
Proactive interference
Retroactive interference
Backward acting. The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.
Ex. Not remembering your old address after living in your new new house for over a year.
Proactive
Old blocks new
Retroactive
New blocks old
PORN
Repression
In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
A psychologist, known specifically for her work with memory.
Elizabeth loftus
Source amnesia
Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined,
Incorporating misleading information into your memory of an event.
Misinformation effect
Iconic memory
Momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli. Photo or picture lasting 1-2 seconds
An auditory memory, usually lasting between 3-4 seconds.
Echoic memory
George miller
Rule of 7. Short term memory. Our memory can take about 7 things, if you don’t rehearse it then you won’t get past 7.
An increase in synapses firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory.
Long term potentiation (LTP)
Amnesia
Loss of memory
Retention independent of conscious recollection
Implicit memory
Explicit memory
Memory of facts and experiences that one can know and consciously know and declare.
Has to do with explicit memory in the brain.
Hippocampus
Cerebellum
Little brain
Processing sensory imput. Coordinating movement and balance.
Measure of memory in which the person only need identify items previously learned. Like on a multiple choice test.
Recognition
Recall
Measure of memory in which the person must retrieve info learned earlier, as in the fill in the blank.
