Chapter 6 - long term memory structure

Autobiographical memory

memories for events in a persons life such as remembering your birthday

Mental time travel

involves mentally reliving past or imagining future events such as recalling childhood

Personal semantic memories

facts about ones life without specific context such as knowing your school name

Declarative memories

memories that can be consciously recalled such as remembering facts

Explicit memories

consciously accessed memories such as recalling a word list

Implicit memories

previous experiences influence performance without awareness such as improved task performance

Procedural memory

memory for doing things such as riding a bike

Skill memory

type of procedural memory for learned skills such as typing

Priming

presentation of one stimulus affects response to another such as doctor facilitating nurse

Repetition priming

improved processing when stimulus is repeated such as faster recognition of seen words

Word completion test

completing word fragments such as REA___ becoming REASON

Coding

form in which information is represented such as visual or semantic encoding

Incidental encoding tasks

learning occurs without intention such as rating words

Long term memory LTM

system for storing large amounts of information over long periods such as remembering an address

Hippocampus

brain structure crucial for forming new long term memories such as forming new experiences

Prospective memory

remembering to carry out intended actions such as taking medicine later

Remember know procedure

distinguishing between recollection and familiarity such as remembering versus knowing

Primacy effect

enhanced memory for items at the beginning of a list

Recency effect

enhanced memory for items at the end of a list

Serial position curve

pattern showing better recall for first and last items

Release from proactive interference

improvement when switching to a new category

Propaganda effect

repeated statements are more likely judged as true

Lexical decision task

deciding whether a string is a word or nonword

Cross sectional data

comparing different groups at one time

Longitudinal data

studying the same participants over time

Classical conditioning

learning through association between stimuli

Semanticization of remote memories

older memories lose episodic detail and become more semanti