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| Alzheimers Disease | progressive mental deterioration that occurs most commonly in old age. It is characterized by severe memory loss. (Hippocampus |
| chunking | grouping information into units. |
| Cue | a stimulus that can begin a retrieval process from LTM. |
| Decay Theory | passage of time itself causes forgetting |
| Eidetic imagery | photographic memory |
| elaborative rehearsal | linking new information to familiar material in LTM |
| Episodic | where and when a specific event happened; has personal meaning. |
| explicit memory | those memories which a subject is able to cite as being a memory of a particular event. |
| flashbulb memories | being able to vividly remember a certain even and the incidents surrounding it for along time. |
| implicit memory | memories which a subject is unable to cite as being a memory of a particular event |
| interference | interruptions in reentry of information into STM |
| landmark events | important events that can be used as memory aids. |
| long-term memory (LTM) | relatively permanent memory in which information is stored for use at a later time. |
| Method of Loci | mnemonic device in which an idea is associated with a place or part of a building. This is the walking a path exercise we did when we were learning. |
| Mnemonics | memory strategies in which information is organized or tagged visually or verbally. |
| Mnemonist | someone with highly developed memory skills. |
| Motivated forgetting theory | people forget things that cause pain, threat, or embarrassment. |
| Proactive interference | old material already in memory interferes with new information. |
| Procedural memory | explicit memory of how to do something. |
| Recall | using a very general stimulus cue to search the contents of LTM. To do this you must use a cue to find material in LTM associated with that cue. A persons face is a cue for their name. |
| Recognition | matching a specific stimulus cue to an appropriate item in LTM. |
| Redintegration | The type of memory that occurs when something unlocks a rapid chain of memories. |
| Retrieval | process of returning LTM contents to STM for analysis or awareness. |
| Retrieval failure theory | forgetting is a problem with retrieval, not a problem with LTM storage of information. |
| Retroactive interference | new information interferes with old information already in the memory. |
| Retrograde amnesia | inability to recall events immediately preceding an accident or injury, but without loss of earlier memory. |
| rote rehearsal | repeating material over and over. |
| selective attention | attending to only the important messages from the senses. |
| Semantic memory | facts and relations between facts |
| Sensory memory | the type of memory that occurs within the senses while messages are being transmitted to the brain. |
| Short-term memory (STM) | working memory, capacity is limited to about seven items and a duration of about 30 seconds. |
| State-Dependent Learning | memory that is connected to a state of emotional arousal. |
| STM reentry strategy: rehearsal | maintaining information by repeating or reviewing it mentally |
| STM reentry strategy: sensory | if the stimuli is still present (like a smell) it can be reselected |
| Tip-of-tongue (TOT) | the feeling that a word you are trying to remember is barely inaccessible. |
| Zeigarnik Effect | process of working unconsciously on a problem until it is solved. |
