Week 11 Flashcards
(31 cards)
Autobiographical memory
Memory for the events of one’s life
Consolidation
The process occurring after encoding that is believed to stabilize memory traces
Cue overload principle
The principle stating that the more memories that are associated to a particular retrieval cue, the less effective the cue will be in prompting retrieval of any one memory
Distinctiveness
The principle that unusual events (in a context of similar events) will be recalled and recognized better than uniform (nondistinctive events)
Encoding
The initial experience of perceiving and learning events
Encoding specificity principle
The hypothesis that a retrieval cue will be effective to the extent that information encoded from the cue overlaps or matches information in the engram or memory trace
Engrams
A term indicating the change in the nervous system representing an event; also, the memory trace
Episodic memory
Memory for events in a particular time and place
Flashbulb memory
Vivid personal memories of receiving the news of some momentous (an usually emotional) event
Memory traces
A term indicating the change in the nervous system representing an event
Misinformation effect
When erroneous information occurring after an event is remembered as having been part of the original event
Recoding
The ubiquitous process during learning of taking information in one form and converting it to another form, usually one more easily remembered
Retrieval
The process of accessing stroed information
Retroactive interface
The phenomenon whereby events that occur after some event of interest will usually cause forgetting of the original event
Semantic memory
The permanent store of knowledge that people have
Storage
The stage in the learning/memory process that bridges encoding and retrieval
Anterograde amnesia
Inability to form new memories for facts and events after the onset amnesia
Consolidation
Process by which memory trace is stabilized and transformed into a more durable form
Decay
The fading of memories with the passage of time
Declarative memory
Conscious memories for facts and events
Dissociative amnesia
Loss of autobiographical memories form a period in the past in the absense of brain injury or disease
Encoding
Process by which information gets into memory
Interference
Other memories get in the way of retrieving a desired memory
Medial temporal lobes
Inner region of the temporal lobes that includes the hippocampus
