Long-term Memory II

Flashcards covering key concepts from the Long-Term Memory II lecture.

Declarative Memory

Memory that can be expressed with words, such as recalling what you had for dinner or the main ingredient in coffee.

Non-declarative (procedural) Memory

Memory of how to do things, hard to express with words, such as tying shoelaces or skipping.

Episodic Memory

Specific events and personal experiences.

Semantic Memory

General knowledge and facts based on meaning and relationships.

Schema

The active organization of past reactions or experiences used to reconstruct memories.

Autobiographical Memory

Memories of one's own lifetime, including personal experiences.

Infantile Amnesia

The inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories before the age of 2–4 years, as well as the period before age 10 of which older adults retain fewer memories than might otherwise be expected given the passage of time.

Flashbulb Memories

Extremely detailed memories about shocking, highly charged events, including where you were, what you were doing, and how you heard about it.

Weapon focus

The tendency to focus on a weapon during a crime, impairing memory for other details.

Confirmation bias

The tendency to reconstruct event memory to fit one's worldview, stereotypes, or schemas.

Misinformation effect

Incorporating untrue or misleading information into one's memory of an event.

Recovered memory

Sudden recall of a usually traumatic incident, such as sexual or physical abuse, often after a period of forgetting.

Amnesia

Memory loss due to damage to the hippocampal system.

Anterograde amnesia

The inability to remember new events after the onset of amnesia.

Retrograde amnesia

The inability to remember old things or events before the onset of amnesia.