AP Psychology Chapter 9
These terms are matched to Myers 8th edition of Psychology chapter 9.
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- misinformation effect
- is the tendency of eyewitnesses to an event to incorporate misleading information about the event into their memories. At the heart of many false memories, source amnesia refers to misattributing an event to the wrong source.
- Echoic memory
- is the momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli, lasting about 3 or 4 seconds.
- Proactive interference
- is the disruptive effect of something you already have learned on your efforts to learn or recall new information.
- Relearning
- is also a measure of retention in that the less time it takes to relearn information, the more that information has been retained.
- Effortful processing
- is encoding that requires attention and some degree of conscious effort
- Mnemonics
- are memory aids (the method of loci,acronyms, peg-words, etc.), which often use visual imagery.
- Rehearsal
- is the conscious, effortful repetition of information that you are trying either to maintain in consciousness or to encode for storage.
- Long-term memory
- is the relatively permanent and unlimited capacity memory system into which information from short-term memory may pass.
- Long-term potentiation (LTP)
- is an increase in a synapse's firing potential following brief, rapid stimulation. LTP is believed to be the neural basis for learning and memory.
- Priming
- is the activation, often unconscious, of a web of associations in memory in order to retrieve a specific memory.
- Serial position effect
- is the tendency for items at the beginning and end of a list to be more easily retained than those in the middle.
- Retrieval
- is the process of bringing to consciousness information from memory storage.
- Implicit memories
- are memories of skills, preferences and dispositions. These memories are evidently processed, not by the hippocampus, but by a more primitive part of the brain, the cerebellum. They are also called procedural or nondeclarative memories.
- acoustic encoding
- the encoding of sound, especially the sound of words.
- Chunking
- is the memory technique of organizing material into familiar, meaningful units.
- Encoding
- the first step in memory; information is translated into some form that enables it to enter our memory system.
- Sensory memory
- is the immediate, initial recording of sensory information in the memory system.
- Retroactive interference
- is the disruptive effect of something recently learned on old knowledge.
- Spacing effect
- is the tendency for distributed practice to yield better long-term retention than massed practice, or cramming.
- Semantic encoding
- is the processing of information into memory according to its meaning.
- Deja vu
- is the false sense that you have already experienced a current situation.
- Imagery
- refers to mental pictures and can be an important aid to effortful processing.
- Storage
- is the passive process by which encoded information is maintained over time.
- Iconic memory
- is the visual sensory memory consisting of a perfect photographic memory, which lasts no more than a few tenths of a second.
- Mood-congruent
- memory is the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with our current mood.
- Memory
- the persistence of learning over time via the storage and retrieval of information
- Visual encoding
- is the use of imagery to process information into memory.
- hippocampus
- is a neural region within the limbic system that is important in the processing of explicit memories for storage.
- working memory
- a newer understanding of short-term memory that involves conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and of information retrieved from longterm memory.
- Recognition
- is a measure of retention in which one need only identify, rather than recall, previously learned information.
- Explicit memories
- are memories of facts, including names, images and events. They are also called declarative memories.
- Repression
- is an example of motivated forgetting in that painful and unacceptable memories are prevented from entering consciousness.
- Recall
- is a measure of retention in which the person must remember, with few retrieval cues, information learned earlier.
- Flashbulb memory
- an unusually vivid memory of an emotionally important moment in one's life.
- Automatic processing
- refers to our unconscious encoding of incidental information such as space,time, and frequency, and of well-learned information.
- Short-term memory
- is conscious memory, which can hold about seven items for a short time; also called working memory.