Module 32: Psychology for the AP Course (SY 24-25)

Memory Consolidation

the neural storage of a long-term memory

Semantic Memory

explicit memory of facts and general knowledge; one of our two conscious memory systems.

Episodic Memory

explicit memory of personally experienced events; one of our two conscious memory systems

Hippocampus

A neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage.

Flashbulb Memory

a clear, sustained memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)

an increase in a cell's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory

Priming

the activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory

Encoding Specificity Principle

the idea that cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be most effective in helping us recall it

Mood-Congruent Memory

the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood

Serial Position Effect

our tendency to recall best the last (a recency effect) and first items (a primacy effect) in a list

Misinformation Effect

occurs when misleading information has distorted one's memory of an event.

Maintenance Rehearsal

The repetition of information for the immediate and temporary recall of information. This process can keep it within working memory (example: repeating a phone # until the call is made)

Elaborative Rehearsal

a method of transferring information from STM into LTM by making that information meaningful in some way by creating associations and/or personal connections (example: mnemonic devices)

Memory Retention

The second stage of memory after encoding before retrieval. The ability to store information in memory for future use.

Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM)

occurs when people can recall in considerable, vivid detail personal events from almost any day of their adolescent and adult life

Context Dependent Memory

The theory that information learned in a particular situation or place is better remembered when in that same situation or place.

State Dependent Memory

The theory that information learned in a particular state of mind (e.g., depressed, happy, somber) is more easily recalled when in that same state of mind.