Ap Flashcards

5633529296	implicit memory	retention independent of conscious recollection	0
5633534185	explicit memory	memory of facts and experiences that one van consciously know and declare	1
5633555382	hippocampus	neural center that is located in the limbic center	2
5688261028	recall	a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier fill in the blank test	3
5688284466	recognition	measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned multiple choice test	4
5688294866	relearning	measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material a second time	5
5688307636	priming	activation, often unconsciously of particular associations in memory	6
5688317787	deja vu	the eerie sense of "ive experienced this before"	7
5688333028	mood congruent memory	tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones current good or bad mood	8
5688353741	proactive interference	disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information	9
5688371783	retroactive interference	disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information	10
5688382944	repression	psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness, anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories	11
5688406727	misinformation effect	incorporating misleading information into ones memory of an event	12
5688419677	source amnesia	attributing to the wrong source, an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined	13
5703739692	Absent mindedness	sin of forgetting, inattention to details leads to encoding failure, our mind is elsewhere when we lay down the car keys	14
5703793053	transcience	sin of forgetting, storage decay over time, after we part ways with former classmates, unused information fades	15
5703815772	blocking	sin of forgetting, inaccessibility of stored information, ( ex when something is on the tip of your tongue )	16
5703837534	misattribution	sin of distortion, confusing the source of information (putting words in someone elses mouth)	17
5703861464	suggestibility	the lingering effects of misinformation (did mr jones touch your private parts? later becomes a childs false memory )	18
5703886854	bias	Sin of distribution, belief colored recollections (current feelings towards a friend may color our recalled initial feelings	19
5703905488	persistence	sin of intrusion, unwanted memories (being haunted by images of sexual assault)	20