Psychology 2e Reading Quiz CH 8

Explicit memory

Conscious recall of facts and events

Implicit memory

Unconscious memory of skills and habits

Sensory memory

Stores brief sensory information like sights sounds and tastes

Suggestibility

Memory distortion caused by external information leading to false memories

Distributed practice

Studying in multiple short sessions over time instead of cramming

Anterograde amnesia

Inability to form new memories

Episodic memory

Memory of personally experienced events

Hindsight bias

Reconstructing memories after an event to make it seem predictable

Elaborative rehearsal

Thinking about the meaning of new information and linking it to existing knowledge

Semantic network activation

Related concepts are also activated at a lower level

Retroactive interference

New learning interferes with recall of old information

Sleep consolidation

Sleep allows studied material to be consolidated in long-term memory

Relearning

Reacquiring information faster after having learned it before

Flashbulb memory

Vivid memory of a highly emotional or significant event

Mnemonic

HOMES acronym to remember the Great Lakes

Semantic encoding

Encoding based on meaning like associating words with synonyms

Working memory capacity

4 plus or minus 1 items

Hippocampus

Brain part critical for forming and retrieving memories

Ebbinghaus forgetting

About 70 percent of information is forgotten one day after learning if not reviewed

Cramming effectiveness

Cramming the night before is ineffective for long-term memory

Procedural memory

Memory for how to perform tasks like riding a bicycle

Rehearsal

Repeating information over and over to maintain it in short-term memory

Chunking

Grouping information into smaller more manageable units

Explicit memory recall

Actively and consciously remembering information like the 50 states

Rehearsal

Repeating information over and over to maintain it in short-term memory