AP Psych Cogniton

Explicit Memory

The act of consciously or intentionally retrieving past experiences

Implict Memory

Form of long term memory that doesn’t require any conscious retrieval

Procedural Memory

Type of implicit memory involving motor skills and behavioral habits

Episodic Memory

Memory for one’s personal past experiences

Anterograde Amnesia

An inability to form new memories; new information cannot go from short term memory to long term memory.

Consolidation

The process by which memories become stable in the brain

Retrograde amnesia

An inability to retrieve information from one’s past

Proactive interference

The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information

Retroactive interference

The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information

Suggestivility

The development of biased memories from misleading information

Persistence

The intrusive recollection of events that we wish we could forget

Natural Language Mediators

Words associated with new information to be remembered

Overregularization

Applying a grammatical rule too widely and thereby creating incorrect terms

Anchoring bias

A tendency to fixate on initial information, from which one them fails to adequately adjust for subsequent information

Convergent thinking

Narrows the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution

Aptitudes

Natural tendency to do something well, especially one that can be further developed