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Psychology Chapter Eight
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- 1Capacity to retain and retrieve information and also to the structures that account for this capacityMemory
- 2inability to distinguish an actual memory of an event from info you learned elsewheresource misattribution
- 3vivid recollections of emotional and important eventsflashbulb memories
- 4confusion of an event that happened to someone else, with one that happened to you coming to believe that you remember something that never happenedconfabulation
- 5conscious, intentional, recollections of an event or of an item of informationexplicit memory
- 6ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered materialrecall
- 7ability to identify previously encountered materialrecognition
- 8unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or previously encountered information on current thoughts or actionsimplicit memory
- 9method for measuring implicit memory in which a person reads or listens to information and is later tested to see whether the information affects performance on another task.priming method
- 10method for measuring retention that compares the time required to relearn material with the time used in the initial learning of the materialrelearning method
- 11a model of memory in which knowledge is represented as connections among thousands of interacting processing units distributed in a vast network, and all operating in parallel. Also called a connectionist modelparallel distributed processing model
- 12memory system that momentarily preserves extremely accurate images of sensory informationsensory register
- 13a limited capacity memory system involved in the retention of incoming information for brief periods; holds information retrieved form long term memory for temporary useshort term memory
- 14meaningful units of information; it may be composed of smaller unitschunks
- 15a cognitively complex form of stm; involves active mental process that control retrieval of information from long term memory and interpret that information for a given taskWorking memory system
- 16memory system involved in the long term storage of informationlong term memory
- 17memories for the performance of actions or skillsprocedural memories
- 18memories of facts, rules, concepts, and eventsdeclarative memories
- 19memories of general knowledge including facts, rules, concepts, and propositionssemantic memories
- 20memories of personally experienced events and contexts in which they occuredepisodic memories
- 21tendency for recall of the first and last items on a list to surpass recall of items in the middle of the listserial-position effect
- 22long lasting increase in the strength of synaptic responsiveness thought to be a biological mechanism of long term memorylong-term potentiation
- 23process by which a long term memory becomes durable and stableconsolidation
- 24formal strategies and tricks for encoding, storing, and retaining informationmnemonics
- 25review or practice of material while learning itrehearsal
- 26repetition of material to maintain its availability in memorymaintenance rehearsal
- 27association of new information with already stored knowledge and analysis of the new information to make it memorableelaborative rehearsal
- 28processing of meaning rather than simply the physical or sensory features of a stimulusdeep processing
- 29information in memory eventually disappears if not accesseddecay theory
- 30forgetting that occurs when recently learned material interferes with the ability to remember similar material stored previouslyretroactive interference
- 31forgetting that occurs when previously stored material interferes with the ability to remember similar, more recently learned materialproactive interference
- 32inability to retrieve information stored in memory because of insufficient cues for recallcue-dependent forgetting
- 33tendency to remember something when the rememberer is in the same physical or mental state as during original learningstate-dependent memory
- 34tendency to remember experiences that are consistent with ones current mood and overlook or forget experiences that are notmood congruent memory
- 35partial or complete loss of memoryamnesia
- 36the selective, involuntary pushing of threatening or upsetting information into the unconsciousrepression
- 37inability to remember events and experiences that occurred earlier than 2 years oldchildhood (infantile) amnesia
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