7.17– Forgetting and Remembering across the Life Span & 7.18– Testing to Improve Your Memory

Infantile amnesia

the inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories from the first few years of life

Reminiscence bump

a time of prominent memory making between adolescence and early adulthood

The Testing Effect

Compared with other types of study methods, repeated retrieval tests result in the best memory, even across different types of test questions, extending from simple memorization to inferential learning

Spacing effect

The enhanced ability to remember information when encoding is distributed over time