Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
All terms from Myers Psychology for AP (BFW Worth, 2011)
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| 8022183804 | memory | the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information. | 0 | |
| 8022183805 | encoding | the processing of information into the memory system—for example, by extracting meaning. | 1 | |
| 8022183806 | storage | the retention of encoded information over time. | 2 | |
| 8022183807 | retrieval | the process of getting information out of memory storage. | 3 | |
| 8022183808 | sensory memory | the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system. | 4 | |
| 8022183809 | short-term memory | activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten. | 5 | |
| 8022183810 | long-term memory | the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences. | 6 | |
| 8022183811 | working memory | a newer understanding of short-term memory that focuses on conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory. | 7 | |
| 8022183812 | rehearsal | the conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage. | 8 | |
| 8022183813 | serial position effect | our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list. | 9 | |
| 8022183814 | visual encoding | the encoding of picture images. | 10 | |
| 8022183815 | elaborative encoding | the encoding of meaning, connecting to other ideas already in storage | 11 | |
| 8022183816 | mnemonics | memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices. | 12 | |
| 8022183817 | chunking | organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically. | 13 | |
| 8022183818 | iconic memory | a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second. | 14 | |
| 8022183819 | echoic memory | A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds. | 15 | |
| 8022183820 | long-term potentiation (LTP) | an increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory. | 16 | |
| 8022183821 | flashbulb memory | a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. | 17 | |
| 8022183822 | amnesia | the loss of memory. | 18 | |
| 8022183823 | implicit memory | retention independent of conscious recollection. (Also called non-declarative or procedural memory.) | 19 | |
| 8022183824 | explicit memory | memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare." (Also called declarative memory.) | 20 | |
| 8022183825 | hippocampus | a neural center that is located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage. | 21 | |
| 8022183826 | recall | a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test. | 22 | |
| 8022183827 | recognition | a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test. |  | 23 |
| 8022183828 | priming | the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response. | 24 | |
| 8022183829 | déjà vu | that eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience. | 25 | |
| 8022183830 | state dependent retrieval | the tendency to recall information when a person is in the same state of mind they were in when the information was encoded | 26 | |
| 8022183831 | proactive interference | the disruptive effect of old learning on the recall of new information. | 27 | |
| 8022183832 | retroactive interference | the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information. | 28 | |
| 8022183833 | repression | in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. | 29 | |
| 8022183834 | source amnesia/memory misattribution | attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined. (Also called source misattribution.) Source amnesia, along with the misinformation effect, is at the heart of many false memories. | 30 | |
| 8022183835 | transience | the process of forgetting long term information over the passage of time | 31 | |
| 8022183836 | blocking | a failure to access information that is usually available (tip of the tongue) | 32 | |
| 8022183837 | absentmindedness | a lapse in attention that results in memory failure | 33 | |
| 8022183838 | suggestibility | the tendency to include misinformation when influenced to do so | 34 | |
| 8022183839 | bias | a person's perception of the world alters their memory of information | 35 |
