Chapter 7 Vocab Farnsworth
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 memory | the process by which we recollect prior experiences and information and skills learned in the past |
| episodic memory | memory of a specific event |
| flashbulb memories | we can see it in every detail |
| semantic memory | general knowledge that has been remembered |
| implicit memory | opposite of explicit memory |
| encoding | translation of information into a form in which it can be stored |
| storage | the second process of memory after it has been encoded |
| maintenance rehearsal | used in education because it has proved to be a much more effective method that maintenance rehearsal |
| retrieval | locating stored information and returning it to conscious thought |
| context-dependent memories | old memories |
| state-dependent memories | memories that are retrieved because the mood in which they were originally created was been re-created |
| tip-of-the-toungue phenomenon | retrieving information as thought its on the tip of your toungue |
| sensory memory | the first stage of memory |
| iconic memory | the mental pictures we form are held here |
| eidetic imagery | the ability to remember visual stimuli over long periods of time |
| echoic memory | mental traces of sounds called echoes are held here |
| short-term memory | you can transfer iconic and echoic memories to this part of your memory |
| primacy effect | the tendency to recall the initial items in a series of items |
| recency effect | recalling the last items in a series |
| chunking | the organization of items into familiar or manageable units |
| interference | occurs when new information appears in short-term memory and takes place of what is already there |
| long-term memory | the third stage of memory of information |
| schemas | the mental representations that we form of the world by organizing bits of information into knowledge |
| recognition | one of the three basic memory tasks which involves identifying objects or events that have been encountered before |
| recall | second memory task, means to bring it back to mind |
| relearning | third basic memory task |
| decay | the fading away of a memory |
| infantile amnesia | forgetting of early events like when you are a baby |
| anterograde amnesia | memory loss from trauma that prevents a person from forming new memories |
| retrograde amnesia | people forget the period leading up to a traumatic event |
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