Memory Vocabulary

Effortful Processing

Maya spent hours carefully reviewing her flashcards and creating mnemonic devices to master the vocabulary.

Visuospatial Sketchpad

To solve the jigsaw puzzle Zoe mentally rotated the pieces to see where they might fit.

Central Executive

Olivia coordinates visualizing her route that she will need to take to school and counting the number of blocks she will need to walk there.

Phonemic Processing

When studying French Elena focused on the way the words sounded when pronounced.

Semantic Processing

Michael remembered a psychology concept best after relating it to his own life experiences.

Automatic Processing

Ben found himself able to quickly identify the color of his first car: something that he had never consciously studied or tried to remember.

Structural Processing

Sam noted that the word "cat" had three letters.

Retrograde Amnesia

After a serious car accident Ben could not remember any events that occurred before the injury.

Elaborative Rehearsal

Javier linked a new term to an event from his own childhood.

Anterograde Amnesia

Due to damage to his hippocampus Alice is unable to form new long-term memories of people she meets or events that happen today.

Maintenance Rehearsal

Amara repeated the number of her bus stop sign until the bus arrived.

Retroactive Interference

After studying Spanish vocabulary for a week David found that the new terms made it difficult to recall the French vocabulary he had learned the previous month.

Proactive Interference

Sarah struggled to remember her new phone number because her old

Construct Validity

A new scale measuring anxiety was evaluated by comparing its results with the results of several existing measures of anxiety.

Predictive Validity

The college admissions exam was evaluated by later correlating students’ scores on the exam with their GPA after their freshman year of college.

Test-Retest Reliability

Chloe took the same personality assessment again two weeks later and got nearly the same scores.