Psychology: Themes and Variations by Wayne Weiten, 8th edition definitions
Subject:
Psychology [1]
Tags:
Mind [2]
memory [3]
Mental processes [5]
Recall [6]
Long-term memory [7]
Episodic memory [8]
Semantic memory [10]
Encoding [11]
Amnesia [12]
Forgetting [13]
health [14]
Technology [15]
Human Memory [16]
Chapter 7: Human Memory Definitions Amnesia Loss of memories for events that occur after a head injury. See Anterograde amnesia, Retrograde amnesia. Anterograde amnesia Loss of memories for events that occur after a head injury. Attention Focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Chunk A group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit. Connectionist models Models of memory that assume cognitive processes depend on patterns of activation in highly interconnected computational networks that resemble neural networks. Also called connectionist models.. See Parallel distributed processing (PDP) models. Consolidation A hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory.