Ch.7 Memory (Intro. to Psych) Flashcards

140350336	episodic	Pain of a broken leg is an example of what type of memory?
140350337	10-12 seconds	How long is information retained in short-term memory?
140350338	recognition	What is the easiest of the three memory tasks?
140350339	state-dependent	These type of memories are retrieved when a person is in a particular mood:
140350340	schemas	We can more easily remember bits of information by organizing them into mental representations of the world called_________.
140350341	anterograde amnesia	Is the loss of ability to store new memories particularly after trauma to the brain
140350342	recall	The second memory task, bringing something back to mind
140350343	sensory memory	First stage of information, the immediate, initial recording of data.
140350344	echoic memory	mental sensory register of mental traces of sound
140350345	repression	Unconscious forgetting of painful or unpleasant memories
140350347	Eidetic imagery	ability to remember visual stimuli over a long period of time
140350348	chunking	organization of items into familiar or manageable units
140350349	iconic memory	sensory registers of accurate, photographic images
140350350	retrograde amnesia	the loss of ability to remember events leading up to a traumatic event
140350351	Explicit	the memory of specific information such as a particular event or piece of general knowledge is called_____.
140350352	Short-term memory	Another name for working memory
140350353	interference	When short-term memory is full, _____occurs as new information displaces what was there.
140350354	decay	The fading away of memory over time.
140350355	memory	The processes by which we recall experiences, information and skills is known as _______.
140350356	Encoding	_____is the process of converting a physical stimulus received through the senses into a psychological format that can be represented mentally.
140350357	Explicit	Semantic and episodic memories are both examples of _____memory
140350358	HM	patient who suffered severed epileptic seizures who had part of his hippocampus removed; he showed he still had the capacity to learn.
140350359	Clive Wearing	after an infection his brain disabled his episodic and autobiographical memory; he suffered total anterograde amnesia and near total retrograde amnesia
140350360	infantile amnesia	the inability to remember events that occurred during one's early life.
140364896	primacy effect	the tendency to recall the initial items in a series
140364897	recency effect	the tendency to recall the last items in a series