Psych third exam

General knowledge, as opposed to episodic memory.

Memories of events experienced by a person.

Is memory for how to do things.

Modifing information so that it can be placed in memory.

Is the role of repeptition in the retention of memories.

The tendency to recall more accuratley the first and last items in a series.

Is a subject recalling primary information presented better than information presented later on.

The phenomenon that when people are asked to recall in any order the items on a list, those that come at the end of the list are more likely to be recalled than the others.

A system of memory that holds information breifly, but long enough so that it can be processed further.

The type of stage of memory that can hold information for up to a minute.

The type of stage of memory capable of relatively permanent storage.

• is a detailed and vivid memory that is stored
• on one occasion and retained for a lifetime.

Information that is better retrieved in the context in which it was encoded, stored, or learned.

Retrieval or reconstruction of learned material.

In information processing the easiest memory task, involving identification of objects or events ecountered before.

A measure of retention. (Material is usually relearned more quickly than it is learned initially).

The interference by old learning with the ability to retrieve material learned recently.

The interference of new learning with the ability to retrieve material learned previously.

Its Frued's psychodynamic theory of the ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from conscious awareness.

Failure to remember events that occur after physical trauma because of the effect of the trauma.

Failure to remember events that occur proir to physical trauma because of the the effects of the trauma.

is the common anability of adults to remember the events from the earlierst years of their childhood.

Either of two masses of gray matter lying between the cerebral hemispheres on either side of the third ventricle, relaying sensory information and acting as a center for pain perception.

A structure in the limbic system that plays an important role in the formation of new memories.

Adrenaline is a hormone produced by the adrenal gland in the body of many animals.

is a neurotransmitter in both the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and central nervous system (CNS) in many organisms including humans.

Is a monoamine neurotransmitter.

Its one of the forms of dementia that gradually gets worse over time. It affects memory, thinking, and behavior.

Abbreviations and meanings.

It is any learning technique that aids memory.

The communication of information by means of symbols arranged accoeding to rules of grammer.

The quality of language in which wods are used as symbols for objects, events, or ideas.

The capacity to combine words into orginal sentences.

The quality of language that permits one to communicate information about objects and events in another time and place.

it basically letters, 3 letters or 3 phonomies. For example: cat, dog, or car.

The smallest units of meaning.

Rules of grammer.

Basically crying or cooing.

Is shedding tears as a response to an emotional state in humans.

Is a soft murmuring sound expressing contentment.

To utter a meaningless confusion of words or sounds.

A single word used to express complex meanings.

Is the type of speech produced by people who have suffered injury to the part of the brain called Broca’s area.

Is when a child uses a word too broadly. Like if they called all males 'daddy' or all aniamls 'dog'.

Is forming inflections (e.g., past tense and plurals) to irregular verbs and nouns.

Is a process starting early in human life, when a child begins to acquire language by learning it as it is spoken and by mimicry.

It deals with the biological belief that language is an innate feature of the infant.

Is a postulated "organ" of the brain that is supposed to function as a congenital device for learning symbolic language

Is a term coined to refer to important periods of childhood development.

Is Brain development and the maturity of language.