Myers chapter 9 vocab

62593100	Memory	The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.
62593101	Flashbulb memory	A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.
62593102	Encoding	The processing of information into the memory system.
62593103	Storage	The retention of encoded information over time.
62593104	Retrieval	The process of getting information out of memory storage.
62593105	Sensory memory	The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system.
62593106	Short term memory	activated memory that holds a few items briefly, before information is stored or forgotten.
62593107	Long term memory	Relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system.
62593108	Working memory	A newer understanding of short-term memory that involves conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual-spatial information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory.
62593109	Automatic processing	Unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings.
62593110	Effortful processing	Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.
62593111	Rehearsal	The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage.
62593112	Spacing effect	The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield bettwe long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice.
62593113	Serial position effect	Our tendency to recall bast the last and first items in a list.
62593114	Visual encoding	The encoding of picture images.
62593115	Acoustic encoding	The encoding of sound, especially the sound of words.
62593116	Semantic encoding	The encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words.
62593117	Imagery	Mental pictures
62593118	Mnemonics	Memory aids.
62593119	Chunking	Organizing terms into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically.
62593120	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
62593121	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.
62593122	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.
62593123	Amnesia	The loss of memory.
62593124	Implicit memory	Retention independent of conscious recollection.
62593125	Explicit memory	Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare".
62593126	Hippocampus	A neural center that is located in the limbic system and helps process explicit memories for storage.
62593127	Recall	A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test.
62593128	Recognition	A measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple choice test.
62593129	Relearning	A memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time.
62593130	Priming	The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.
62593131	Deja vu	The eerie sense that "I've experienced this before". Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.
62593132	Mood congruent memory	The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with your current mood (good or bad).
62593133	Proactive interference	The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.
62593134	Retroactive interference	The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.
62593135	Repression	In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.
62593136	Misinformation effect	Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event.
62593137	Source amnesia	Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined (also called source misattribution).