CHAPTER 6 LONG-TERM MEMORY

Long-Term Memory

An 'archive' of information about past events and knowledge learned, functioning closely with working memory.

Primacy Effect

The phenomenon where items presented at the beginning of a list are remembered better than those in the middle.

Recency Effect

The phenomenon where items presented at the end of a list are remembered better due to their presence in short-term memory.

Episodic Memory

Memory for specific personal experiences, involving mental time travel back to relive those experiences.

Semantic Memory

Memory for facts and general knowledge, not involving mental time travel.

Autobiographical Memory

Memories that contain both episodic and semantic components, relating to a person's life experiences.

Constructive Episodic Simulation Hypothesis

The idea that episodic memories are extracted and recombined to create simulations of future events.

Implicit Memory

Memory that occurs without conscious recollection, such as skills and conditioned responses.

Procedural Memory

A type of implicit memory related to skills and actions, without conscious awareness of how they were learned.

Priming

The presentation of a stimulus that changes a person's response to a subsequent test stimulus.

Serial Position Curve

A graphical representation showing how recall accuracy varies as a function of an item's position in a list.

Proactive Interference

When older memories interfere with the retrieval of newer memories.

Recognition Memory

The ability to identify a previously encountered stimulus.

Neuropsychology

The study of the relationship between brain function and behavior, particularly in memory.

Double Dissociation

A pattern in neuropsychology where damage to one area of the brain affects one cognitive function while leaving another function intact.

Fill in the blank: The __________ Effect refers to remembering items better at the beginning of a list.

Primacy

Fill in the blank: __________ Memory involves skills and actions learned without conscious awareness.

Procedural

Fill in the blank: __________ Memory is specifically related to personal experiences and can involve mental time travel.

Episodic

Fill in the blank: The __________ Curve illustrates how recall accuracy changes based on item position in a list.

Serial Position

Fill in the blank: __________ Interference occurs when older memories obstruct the retrieval of newer memories.

Proactive

Fill in the blank: __________ Memory allows for the identification of previously encountered stimuli.

Recognition

Fill in the blank: __________ Memory consists of both episodic and semantic components pertaining to a person's life experiences.

Autobiographical

Fill in the blank: The __________ Hypothesis suggests episodic memories are recombined to simulate future events.

Constructive Episodic Simulation

Fill in the blank: __________ Memory occurs without conscious recollection and is often linked to conditioned responses.

Implicit

Fill in the blank: The phenomenon where items at the end of a list are better remembered is known as the __________ Effect.

Recency