2.3-2.7 memory AP psych

Recall

Retrieving your information that is not currently in your conscious awareness but was learned before.

Relearning

Learning something more quickly than before you have learned once again

Encode

Input information

Storage

Retain information

Retrieve

Pull out your information

Sensory memory

Functions to feed our active memory recoding sensory impression like sight, sound, and smells

Short term memory

The brain’s temporary storage holding a small amount of information

Long term memory

Memories are relatively permanent and limitless

Central executive memory

Manager controller of the memory system.

Visuospatial sketchpad

Briefly holds object’s feature and appearance

Phonological loop

Briefly holds auditory information

Maintenance rehearsal

Remembering the information without connecting to other terms

Elaborating rehearsal

Connecting information with other terms.

Long term potentiation

An increase nerve cells’ firing potential after repeated briefly stimulation

Alzheimer’s disease

Hard to input new memories, hard to everyday work

Episodic memory

Explicit memory related to your personal experience

Semantic memory

Explicit memory of fact and general knowledge

Procedural memory

Implicit memory that remembers how things works.

Retroperspective

Past information

Prospective

Remembering to carry out something in the future.

Context dependent memory

You are better remembering the information when you are at a certain environment

State dependent memory

You are better remembering at something by physical state

Mood congruent memory

remembering something that is related to your mood

Serial position effects

Remembering information by its position and list of them

Primary effects

Remembering the previous ones more than recent ones

recency effects

Remembering recent ones that previous ones

Superior autobiographical memory

Person who can remember the memories vivid, detailed and accurate from everyday of their lifes

Retrograde amnesia

Fail to retrieve information

Anterograde amnesia

Falling to remember the new information

Encoding failure

Falling to encode the information

Forgetting curve

Shows that we forget the information rapidly at first, and then slows down

Tip of toungue phenomenon

You know the word but hard to explain it

Proactive interference

old information blocks or interferes with learning new information.

Retroactive interference

new information interferes with remembering old information.

Repression

Mind unconsciously pushes away the information related to personal feelings of memory

Memory consolidation

adding new information to older information

Recognition

Identifying items you have learned earlier

Imagination inflation

Imaginary impacts on your memories

Misinformation effect

You are told misinformation by someone and you tend to believe that information is true.

Source amnesia

You don’t know where the source is actually came from