Term
|
Definition
| The capacity to retain and retrieve information. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| When we remmeber complex information, we typically alter simple information that helps us make sense of the material |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The inability to distinguish what you originally experienced from what you heard or were told about an event later. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Confusing an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or coming to believe that you remember something that never really happened. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The storage of unusual or tragic events. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of information. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The ability to identify previously encountered material. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or previously encountered information on current thoughts or actions. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A method 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 type of task. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Mental networks of knowledge, beliefs, and expectations concerning particular topics or aspects of the world. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) |
|
Definition
| A model of memory in which knowledge is represented as connections among tousands of interacting processing units, distributed in a vast network and all operating in parallel. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| In the three-box model of memory, a limited-capacity memory system involved in the retention of information for brief periods; it is also used to hold information retrieved from long-term memory for temporary use. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Short-term memory plus the mental processes that control retrieval of information from long-term memory and interpret that information appropirately for a given task. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A meaningful unit of information; it may be composed of smaller units. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| In the three-box model of memory, the memory system involved in the long-term storage of information. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A general method of organizing information. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Where one tries to recall something that is on the tip of their tongue. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Memory for the performance of actions or skills. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Memories of facts, rules, concepts, and events ("knowing that"); they include semantic and episodic memories. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Memories of general knowledge, including facts, rules, concepts, and propositions. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The tendency for recall of the first and last items on a list to surpass recall of items in the middle of the list. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The review or practice of material while you are learning it. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| In the encoding of information, the processing of meaning rather than simply the physical or sensory features of a stimulus. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Strategies and tricks for improving memory, such as the use of a verse or a formula. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The theory that information in memory eventually disappears if it is not accessed; it applies more to short-term than to long term memory. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Forgetting that occurs when recently learned material interferes with the ability to remember similar material stored previously. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Forgetting that occurs when previously stored material interferes with the ability to remember similar, more recently learned material. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Items of information that can help us find the specific information we're looking for. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The inability to retrieve information stored in memory because of insufficient cues for recall. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The tendency to remember something when the rememberer is in the same physical or mental state as during the original learning experience. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The loss of memory for important personal information, often pinful events. It usually has an organic cause, but in rare cases is psychogenic (psychological in origin). |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Unlike organic amnesia, with psychogenic amnesia, the cause is generally psychological, such as a need to escape feelings of embarassment, guilt, shame, disappointment, or emotional shock. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Involves the forgetting of specific traumatic events, sometimes for many years, and does not involve a loss of identity. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| In psychoanalytic theory, the involuntary pushing of threatening or upsetting information into the unconscious. |
|
|
Term
| Childhood (infantile) amnesia |
|
Definition
| The inability to remember events and experiences that occurred during the first two or three yeras of life. |
|
|
