Memory

Eidetic Imagery

Maintenance of detailed visual memories over several minutes.

Episodic Memory

Memories of events experienced by a person or that take place in the person's presence.

Retrospective Memory

Memory for past exerts, activities, and learning experiences, as shown by explicit (episodic and semantic) and implicit memories.

Explicit Memory

Memory that clearly and distinctly express (explicated) specific information; also referred to as declarative memory.

Implicit Memory

Memory that is suggested (implied) but not plainly expressed, as illustrated in the things that people do but do not state clearly; also referred to as nondeclarative memory.

Icon

Mental representation of a visual stimulus that is held briefly in sensory memory

Working Memory

Same as short term memory

Iconic Memory

Sensory register that briefly holds mental representations of visual stimuli.

Sensory Register

System of memory that holds information briefly, but long enough so that you are able to process further.

Long Term Memory

Type or stage of memory capable of relatively permanent storage

Schema

A way of mentally representing the world, as a belief or an expectation that influence perception of persons objects and situations

Semantic Memory

General knowledge, as opposed to episodic memory.

Sensory Memory

Is the type or stage of memory that is first encountered by a stimulus

Priming

The activation of specific associations in memory, often as a result of repetition and without making a conscious effort to access the memory.

Echo

A mental representation of an auditory stimulus (sound) that is held briefly in sensory memory

Memory Trace

Assumed change in the nervous system that reflects the impression made by impression made by stimulus.

Repression

Freud's psychodynamic theory, the ejection of anxiety-evoking ideas from conscious awareness

Prospective Memory

Memory to perform an act in the future, as at a certain event occurs.

Saccadic Eye Movement

The rapid jumps made by a person's eyes as they fixate on different points.

Echoic Memory

The sensory register that briefly holds mental representations of auditory stimuli.

Short-Term Memory

Type or stage of memory that can hold information for up to a minute or so after the trace of the stimulus decays; also called working memory