Quiz modules 11 and 12

Memories for facts or events, such as scenes, stories, words, conversations, faces or daily events. We are aware of and can recall these kinds of memories.

Technique for questioning people by having them imagine and reconstruct the details.

Process of placing encoded information into permanent mental storage for later recall.

According to Freud, a mental process that automatically hides emotionally threatening information in the unconscious. (can't be voluntarily recalled)

Theory that we store related ideas in separate memory categores. As we make associations we create links.

Ability to form sharp, detailed visual images after examining a picture or page for a short period.

Identification of previously learned information with the help of external clues.

Mnemonic device that improves encoding by creating visual associates between memorized places and new items to be memorized.

Sensory memory that holds auditory information for 1-2 seconds.

Can hold limited amount of information, appox 7 items for 20-30 seconds. Sometimes called working memory.

The forgetting process, recall of a memory is blocked by new information that overwrites or interferes with it.

Combining separate items of information into a larger unit then remembering chunks of information rather than individual items.

Despite making a great effort, we are temporarily unable to recall information that we absolutely know is in our memory.

Inability to retrieve information that was stored or is still stored in long term memory.

Concrete ideas are at the bottom of the heirarchy and are connected to more abstract ideas located above them. Most abstract ideas are at the top.

Retrieval of previously learned information without the aid of or with very few external cues.

Storing information in memory by making mental representations.

Form of sensory memory that holds visual information for a quarter of a second (Icon means Image)

Can store unlimited amounts of information over long periods of time.

Memories of performing motor or perceptual tasks (playing sports). We cannot retrieve these memories and we are not conscious of them.

Recalling information that has been places into short term or long term storage.

Declarative memory consisting of factual knowledge about the world.

Memory loss that may occur after damage to the brain.

Memory files that contain related information organized around a specific topic.