Psych. Chapter 7-Memory

mnemonic device

• 4. Construct links
• Acronyms, phrase, or jingle that helps in remembering information. EX: ROY G. BIV
• the mental representations that we form of the world by organizing bit of info into knowledge
• memories are examples of episodic memories that are recalled in great detail

infantile amnesia

• Forgetting of early events in your childhood
• . Method of repeating information over and over to keep from forgetting it
• third and final stage of memory. To remember something for more than a brief period of time.
• The memory process by which we maintain encoded information over a period of time

echoic memory

• Sensory register that holds mental traces of sounds
• 5%
• Kind of memory that consists of specific events
• You know you know something, but you cannot retrieve it or verbalize it

decay

• Acronyms, phrase, or jingle that helps in remembering information. EX: ROY G. BIV
• the fading away of a memory
• organizes items into familiar units so that they can be remembered more easily
• sensory register where echoes are held. Can be held for several seconds.

elaborative rehearsal

• Kind of memory that consists of specific events
• Method of remembering information by relating it to information already known
• Disturbing memories may be pushed out of the conscious mind
• General knowledge that people remember

implicit memory

• The memories that come back to you in a certain place
• Acronyms, phrase, or jingle that helps in remembering information. EX: ROY G. BIV
• Kind of memory that consists of the skills that people have learned
• the fading away of a memory

iconic memory

• Sensory register that briefly holds mental images of visual stimuli
• Method of remembering information by relating it to information already known
• mental traces of sounds
• Immediate, initial recording of information that enters through our senses

Anterograde amnesia

• 0s are easier to remember
• 3.Form unusual associations
• Forgetting of early events in your childhood
• Memory loss from trauma that prevents a person from forming new memories

Interference

• also known as "working memory"
• General knowledge that people remember
• the memory process that translates information into a form in which it can be stored.
• When new information appears in short-term memory and takes the place of what is already there

Episodic memory

• the mental representations that we form of the world by organizing bit of info into knowledge
• Acronyms, phrase, or jingle that helps in remembering information. EX: ROY G. BIV
• third and final stage of memory. To remember something for more than a brief period of time.
• Kind of memory that consists of specific events