Psych Vocab

The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.

The processing of information into the memory system–for example, by extracting meaning.

The retention of encoded information over time

The process of getting information out of memory storage.

The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system.

Activated memory that holds a few items briefly, suh as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten.

The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences.

Concentrates on the active processing of information in this intermediate stage. Associates new and old information and solves problems.

Conscious repetition to encode a memory for storage.

The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice.

Our tendency to recall best the las and first items in a list.

Mental pictures; a powerfull aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with encoding.

Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and oragnizational devices.

Oragnizing items into familiar, manageable units, often occurs automaticly.

A momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second.

A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds.

Increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory

A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.

Loss of memory

Retention independent of conscious recollection

Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare.

Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare.

Retrieving information learned earlier.

Need only to identify items previously learned.

A measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time.

The activation, often unconsciously of particular associations in memory

Remembering things better when you are in the same state of mind you learned them in.

Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.

The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood.

The disruptive effec of prior learnign on the recall of new information

The disruptive effec of new learning on the recall of old information.

The basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thought, feelings, and memories.

Incorporating mis leading information into one's memory of an event.

Attributing to the wrong source and event we have experience, heard about, read about or imagined.

The mental activites associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.

A mentalgrouping of similar objects, events, ideas or people.

A mental image or best example of a category.

A sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions.

a tendecy to search for infromation that supports our views that we already had.

the inability to see a problem from a new perspecitve, by emplying a different mental set.

Approach a problem the same way because that way worked in the past.

the tendecy to be more confident that correct

An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning.

The way and issue is posed.