Chapter 9 Ap Psych

289054505	Memory	The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.
289054506	Flashbulb Memory	A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
289054507	Encoding	The processing of information into the memory system.
289054508	Storage	The retention of encoded information over time.
289054509	Retrieval	The process of getting information out of memory storage.
289054510	Sensory Memory	The immediate, intial recording of sensory information in the memory system.
289054511	Short Term Memory	Activated memory that holds a few items briefly before the information is stored or forgotten.
289054512	Long Term Memory	The relativity permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system.
289054513	Automatic Processing	Unconcious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings.
289054514	Effortful Processing	Encoding that requires attention and concious effort.
289054515	Rehearsal	The concious repitition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.
289054516	Spacing Effect	The tendancy for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice.
289054517	Serial Position Effect	Our tendancy to recall best the last and first items in a list.
289054518	Visual Encoding	The encoding of picture images.
289054519	Acoustic Encoding	The encoding of sound, especially the sound of words.
289054520	Semantic Encoding	The encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words.
289054521	Imagery	Mental pictures; a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with semantic encoding.
289054522	Mnemonics	Memory aids; especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices.
289054523	Chunking	Organizing items into familiar, manageable units. Often occurs automatically.
289054524	Ionic Memory	A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second
289054525	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.
289054526	Long-Term Potentiation	An increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory.
289054527	Amnesia	The loss of memory.
289054528	Implicit Memory	Retention independent of concious recollection.
289054529	Explicit Memory	Memory of facts and experiences that one can conciously know and declare.
289054530	Hippocampus	A neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage.
289054531	Recall	A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill in the blank test.
294864659	Recognition	A measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test.
294864660	Relearning	A memory measure that asesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time.
294864661	Priming	The activation, often unconsiously, of particular associations in memory.
294864662	Deja Vu	That eerie sense that "I've experienced this before." Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.
294864663	Mood-congruent Memory	the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood.
294864664	Proactive Interference	The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.
294864665	Retroactive Interference	The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.
294864666	Repression	In psychonanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anixiety- arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
294864667	Misinformation Effect	Incorporating misleading information into one's memory in an event.
294864668	Source Amnesia	attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined