pysch 3

memory for specific information. the information may be autobiographical or refer to general knowledge

memory of how to perform tasks. memory that is suggested but no plainly expressed--people do know but don't state clearly.

repeating information until information activation of a memory is easly enough to make without making a huge effort.

the tendency to recall the first and last items in a series

grouping stimuli in a group that is percieved as a discrete piece of information. the average person is comfortable with chunking 7 numbers a clip

• the feeling that information can be stored in memory althought it cannot be readily retrieved.
• reflects incomplete or imperfect learning
• often retrieve information that is closed to the actual information being sought--sound the same or look the same.

• an extension of context-dependent memory
• information that is retrieved in the physiological or emotional state in which it was encoded and stored or learned.
• we retrieve information when we are moods that are similar to the moods we were experiencing when we learned the information.

• easiest memory task
• realizing that you have experienced a piece of information before

retrieval or reconstruction of learned material

• a measure of information retention
• material usually relearned more quickly than it is learned
• learningspanish when your in high school may make relearning spanish when you are much older

• interference of new learning with the ability to retrieve material learned previously
• memorizing the leg bones make make it harder to recall the arm bones. (new info is blocking the old info being recalled)

• interference by old learning with the ability to retrieve information learned recently
• (old info is blocking new information from being learned)

• enhanced efficiency in synaptic transmission that follows brief, rapid stimulation
• when you are conditioned to a stimuli, you release more serotonin
• in effect, transmission at these synapses becomes more efficient as trials (learning) progress
• kinda like your weeding a path over and over again until the path becomes trodden down

does not become mature until we are 2 yrs old. we cant remember things before then because our hippocampuses are not fully developed.

• studied memory
• tested himself to see how long he could remember lists.
• formulated a forgetting curve
• demonstrated that one could study memory scientifically

when we mentally represent information as a picture

representing stimuli in terms of their meaning

mentally representing information as a sequence of sounds

form of visual encoding

• the mood youre in affects the type of memories you are best able to recall
• i.e bad mood=bad memories