Chapter 1 Psych 248

learning

the process by which changes in behavior arises as a result of an individual or organisms experience interacting with the world

memory

the individual or organisms internal record of past experiences, acquired through learning

verbal learning

term applied to an approach to memory that relies principally on the learning of lists of words and nonsense syllables

model

a method of expressing a theory ore precisely, allowing predictions to be made and tested

Atkinson-Shiffrin Modal model of memory

represents many of the similar models of operation of the human memory

long term memory

a system or system assumed to underpin the capacity to store information over long periods of time

implicit memory

retrieval of information from long term memory through performance rather than explicit conscious recall and recognition

Explicit memory

memory that is open to intentional retrieval whether based on recollecting personal events

Episodic Memory

a system that is assumed to underpin the capacity to remember specific events
personal events

Semantic Memory

a system that is assumed to store accumulative knowledge of the world
Facts

Priming

the process whereby presentation of an item influences the processing of a subsequent item either making it easier to process

Cued recall

retrieving stored information from LTM using a prompt, hint or assigned clue

free recall

remembering something previously studied in any order without specific cues or prompts

word stem

given a list of words then a list of incomplete words and have to figure out what word comes to mind first

fragment completion tasks

Shown incomplete word, pictures, or objects and asked to identify the missing partsta

Universality

that certain mental traits, behaviors or theories apply to all human beings no matter culture or background

Ebbinghaus Human memory experiments

conducted the first rigorous experiment of human memory, proposed that the psychology of the memory could also become a rigorous natural science defined by the precise mathematical laws

duration of memory system

how long a piece of information can stay in memory