Module 24, 25, 26 Flashcards
(23 cards)
A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second
Iconic memory
A neural center located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage
Hippocampus
The tendency to recall expirences that are consistent with one’s current good or bad mood
Mood-congruent memory
The process of getting information out of memory storage
Retrieval
The activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one’s perception, memory or response
Priming
A inability to form new memories
Anterograde amnesia
Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
Mnemonics
The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval information.
Memory
Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list
Serial position effect
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and “declare”
Explicit memory
That eerie sense that “I’ve experienced this before”. Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience
Déjà vu
In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from conscious
Repression
An inability to retrieve information from one’s past
Retrograde Amnesia
The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information
Retroactive Interference
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event
Flash bulb memory
Psychologist that showed rats who learned a maze retained parts of that memory, even when various small parts of their brain were removed
Karl Lashley
Psychologist that argued that our memory system self censored information and proposed that we repress painful or unacceptable memories to protect our self-concept and to minimize anxiety
Sigmund Freud
To explain our memory forming process they proposed a three stage model;
1) we first record to-be remembered information as a fleeting sensory memory
2) from there we process information into short-term memory
3) finally, information moves into long-term memory for later retrieval
Atkinson-Shiffrin
Randomly selected a sample of syllables, practiced them, and tested himself.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Asked people to remember three constant groups such as CHJ. Seven information bits
Peterson
The ones we are not fully aware of and thus don’t declare/talk about it. They are formed without awareness that we are building a memory and without rehearsal or other processing in working memory
Implicit memory characteristics
Our conscious memory of our first three years is a blank which is called what?
Infantile Amnesia
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment of event
Flashbulb memory
