Psychology - Themes and Variations 8E - Chapter 7 Vocabulary
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| 427101901 | Encoding | involves forming a memory code | |
| 427101902 | Storage | involves maintaining encoding information in memory over time | |
| 427101903 | Retrieval | involves recovering information from memory stores | |
| 427101904 | Sensory memory | preserves information in its organizational sensory form for a brief time, usually only a fraction of a second | |
| 427101905 | Short-term memory (STM) | is a limited-capacity store that can maintaing unrehearsed information for up to about 20 seconds | |
| 427101906 | Chunk | is a group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit | |
| 427101907 | Long-term memory (LTM) | in an unlimited capacity store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time | |
| 427101908 | Schema | is an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event abstracted from previous experience with the object or event | |
| 427101909 | Recall measure | requires participants to reproduce information on their own without any cues | |
| 427101910 | Recognition measure | of retention requires participants to select previously learned information from an array of options | |
| 427101911 | Relearning measure | of retention requires a participant to memorize information a second time to determine how much time or effort is saved by having learned it before | |
| 427101912 | Decay theory | proposes that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time | |
| 427101913 | Interference theory | proposes that people forget information because of competition from other material | |
| 427101914 | Repression | refers to keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious | |
| 427101915 | Retrograde amnesia | a person loses memories for events that occurred prior to the injury | |
| 427101916 | Anterograde amnesia | a person loses memories for events that occur after the injury | |
| 427101917 | Consolidation | is a hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory | |
| 427101918 | Declarative memory system | handles factual information | |
| 427101919 | Nondeclarative memory system | houses memory for actions, skills, conditioned responses, and emotional memory | |
| 427101920 | Episodic memory system | is made up of chronological, or temporarily dated, recollection of person experiences | |
| 427101921 | Semantic memory system | contains general knowledge that is not tied to time when the information was learned | |
| 427101922 | Over-learning | refers to continued rehearsal of material after you first appear to have mastered it | |
| 427101923 | Serial-position effect | occurs when subjects show better recall for items at the beginning and end of a list than for items in the middle |
