Memory Processes and Models: Information Storage, Retrieval, and Cognitive Structure
Psychology - Cognitive Psychology
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What processes allow us to record and retrieve experiences and information?
Which behaviors show evidence of memory, often referred to as the 3 R's?
What processes are involved in forming and using memory?
What is the process of retrieving previously stored information called?
What is the process of identifying the correct stimulus out of a bunch of choices?
What process involves comparing rates of learning to the first trial?
What is the process of getting information in by translating it into a neural code that your brain can process?
What is the process of retaining information over time called?
What is the process of getting information back out of storage when we want to use it?
What is the first model of memory that includes three separate and interacting memory stores?
Which model suggests that memory stores do NOT correspond to specific brain structures, but more to different processes of memory?
What are the three parts of the Atkinson-Shiffrin Model?
What type of memory is visual and lasts less than a second?
What type of memory is auditory and lasts roughly 5 seconds?
What type of memory briefly holds sensory information?
What is the term for the failure to notice subtle changes in briefly presented stimuli unless attention is directed to those changes?
What type of memory temporarily holds a limited amount of information?
What are examples of memory codes?
What is the mental workspace in which we store and actively process information?
What is the term for simple repetition used to maintain information in short-term memory?
What is the term for focusing on meaning to enhance memory retention?
What type of memory is characterized by unlimited storage capacity?
What are the two types of long-term memory systems?
What type of memory involves facts and experiences we consciously know?
What are the two sub-types of declarative memory?
What type of memory is for personal experiences?
What type of memory is for factual knowledge?
How is declarative memory acquired?
What type of memory involves actions we can remember and perform without awareness?
How is non-declarative memory acquired?
What are the two sub-types of non-declarative memory?
What type of memory involves motor memory for patterns of muscle movements?
What is classical conditioning in the context of memory?
Who had most of his hippocampus removed and lived in a constant present?
Where is memory most prominent in a serial position curve?
What is the term for superior recall of early items on a list?
What diminishes the primary effect?
What is the term for superior recall of the last items on a list?
What diminishes the recency effect?
True or false: More effective encoding into long-term memory increases the likelihood of retrieval.
What is the order of depth of processing from shallow to deepest?
What is the term for the repetition of information to maintain it in short-term memory?
What type of rehearsal focuses on meaning, such as chunking, to enhance memory?
What theory suggests that memory is enhanced if multiple memory codes are used?
What are memory aids, such as acronyms, called?
What is the term for the activation of one concept leading to the activation of another?
True or false: We retrieve a memory more easily when in the same context as where we formed the memory.
What is context-dependent memory?
What is state-dependent memory?
What is the term for the inability to retrieve memory of the past?
What is the term for the inability to form new memories?
True or false: We tend to see most forgetting soon after learning.
What is proactive interference?
What effect involves the distortion of memory by misleading post-event information?
What kind of error occurs when a memory is misattributed to another source?
What kind of error involves deciding whether a memory is based on external or internal sources?
What are the three approaches to study where memories are formed in the brain?
What is it called when emotionally intense events become 'burned in' as a very vivid memory?
What is long-term potentiation?
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