2.6-2.7 Vocabulary Practice

A condition in which memory for a past event is improved when the person is in the same biological or psychological state as when the memory was initially formed.

• Context-dependent memory

• State-dependent memory

• Encoding failure

• Retrieval cue

The finding that memory for an event can be recalled more readily when one is in the same emotional mood (e.g., happy or sad) as when the memory was initially formed.

• State-dependent memory

• Mood-congruent memory

• Encoding failure

• Memory consolidation

Learning that has occurred in a particular place, or circumstance and is displayed only in that context and not when testing occurs in another context.

• State-dependent memory

• Context-dependent memory

• Constructive memory

• Mood-congruent memory

A deeper level of thinking that includes your ability to think about your thinking; how you understand, adapt, change, control, and use your thought processes.

• Recognition

• Retrieval cue

• Metacognition

• Testing effect

A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test.

• Retrieval

• Recognition

• Recall

• Encoding failure

A measure of memory in which the person needs only to identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test.

• Recall

• Recognition

• Retrieval cue

• Testing effect

The process of getting information out of memory storage.

• Encoding

• Retrieval

A prompt or stimulus used to guide memory recall.

• Retrieval cue

• Encoding failure

• Recognition

• Constructive memory

Enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than simply rereading, information.

• State-dependent memory

• Testing effect

• Mood-congruent memory

• Retrieval cue

Remembering conceived as involving the use of general knowledge stored in one’s memory to construct a more complete and detailed account of an event or experience by changing or filling in various features of the memory.

• Constructive memory

• Memory consolidation

• Retrieval

• Encoding failure