Ch. 7 Psych Vocab

Front 1

False but compelling memory. Our mind trying to go beyond the information available.

Back 1

Memory Illusion

Front 2

Brief storage of perceptual information before it is passed on to short term memory.

Back 2

Sensory Memory

Front 3

visual sensory memory

Back 3

iconic memory

Front 4

auditory sensory memory

Back 4

Echoic Memory

Front 5

system that retains information for limited durations

Back 5

Short-term memory

Front 6

fading of information from memory over time

Back 6

Decay

Front 7

loss of information from memory because of competition from additional incoming information

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Interference

Front 8

§ interferencewith retention of old information due to acquisition of new information

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Retroactive interference

Front 9

interference with acquisition of new information due to previous learning of information

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Proactive interference

Front 10

repeating information to extend the duration of retention in short- term memory

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rehearsal

Front 11

repeating stimuli in their original form to retain them in short term memory

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Maintenance rehearsal

Front 12

linking stimuli to each other in a meaningful way to improve retention of information in short-term memory

Back 12

Elaborative rehearsal

Front 13

organizing material into meaningful groupings

Back 13

chunking

Front 14

relativelyenduring retention of information stored regarding our facts, experiences, andskills

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long-term memory

Front 15

type of long-term memory that appears to be permanent

Back 15

permastore

Front 16

tendency to remember words at the beginning of the list very well

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primary effect

Front 17

tendency to remember words at the end of a list especially well

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recency effect

Front 18

memories we recall intentionally and of which we have conscious awareness

Back 18

explicit

Front 19

poor knowledge of facts about the world

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semantic

Front 20

recollection of events in our lives

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episodic

Front 21

memories we don’t deliberately remember or reflect on consciously

Back 21

implicit

Front 22

our ability to identify a stimulus more easily or more quickly after we’ve encountered similar stimuli

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priming

Front 23

memory for how to do things

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procedural

Front 24

process of getting information into our memory banks

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encoding

Front 25

a learning aid, strategy, or device that enhances recall

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mnemonic

Front 26

organized knowledge structure or mental model that we’ve stored in our memories (often over simplify)

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schema

Front 27

use words and rhymes to remember

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pegword method

Front 28

relies on imagery to remember

Back 28

Method of Loci

Front 29

think of an English word that reminds you of the word you’re trying to remember

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keyword method

Front 30

put it to a tune to remember

Back 30

music

Front 31

reactivation or reconstruction of experiences from our memory stores

Back 31

retrieval

Front 32

generating previously remembered information

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recall

Front 33

hint that makes it easier for us to recall information

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retrieval cure

Front 34

reacquiring knowledge we learned but forgotten over time

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relearning

Front 35

easier to remember something when the circumstances are similar to when we learned

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• Encoding specifically

Front 36

superior retrieval of memories when the external context of the original memories matches the retrieval context

Back 36

• Context-dependent learning-

Front 37

loss of memories from our past

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retrogade

Front 38

inability to encode new memories from our experiences

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anterogade

Front 39

inability of adults to remember personal experiences that took place before an early age

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Infantile-amnesia

Front 40

knowledge about our won memory abilities and limitations

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meta-memory

Front 41

emotional memory that is extraordinarily vivid and detailed

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flashbulb memories

Front 42

lack of clarity about the origin of a memory

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source monitoring confusion

Front 43

procedure that encourages patients to recall memories that may or may not have taken place

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• Suggestive memory technique

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creation of fiction memories by providing misleading information about an event after it takes place

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misinformation effect

Front 45

believedto be a memory but does not correspond to real events a

Back 45

false memory

Front 46

reports of long-lost memories, prompted by clinical techniques

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recovered memories