Week 5 AP Vocabulary

Question 1

Echoic Memory

Answer 1

A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli.

Question 2

Iconic Memory

Answer 2

A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli

Question 3

Flashbulb Memory

Answer 3

A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

Question 4

Hippocampus

Answer 4

A neural center that is located in the Linnie system, helps process explicit memories for storage.

Question 5

Priming

Answer 5

The activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing ones perception, memory, or response

Question 6

Explicit Memory

Answer 6

Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare.

Question 7

Proactive Interference

Answer 7

The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.

Question 8

Implicit Memory

Answer 8

Retention independent of conscious recollection (non declarative )

Question 10

Misinformation Effect

Answer 10

Incorporating misleading information into ones memory of an event.

Question 11

Source Amnesia

Answer 11

Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, read about, heard about, or imagined.

Question 11

Retroactive interference

Answer 11

The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information