Psychology Chapter 6

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Moods and _________ affect prospective memory.

Attitude

Echoes are mental representation of an _________ stimulus that are held briefly in sensory memory

Auditory

Episodic memory is also referred to as ___________ memory.

Autobiographical

A ________ is a stimulus or group of stimuli that are perceived as a discrete piece of information.

Chunk

Retrieval of stored information means locating it and returning it to __________.

Consciousness

_____________ amnesia is the loss of memory of personal information that is thought to stem from psychological conflict or trauma.

Dissociative

______________ is the first stage of information processing.

Encoding

_________ memory are the memories of events that happen to a person or that takes place in the person's presence.

Episodic

_________ memory is the memory of things that are clearly stated or explained.

Explicit

An ___________ is a mental representation of a visual stimulus that is held briefly in sensory memory.

Icon

__________ memory is suggested but not plainly expressed, as illustrated in the things that people do but do not state clearly.

Implicit

___________ is the inability to recall events that occur prior to the age of three or so.

Infantile amnesia

__________ is the process by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.

Memory

The appearance of _______ in short-term memory displaces the old information.

New information

Retroactive interference is the interference of _____________ with the ability to retrieve material learned previously.

New learning

Anterograde amnesia is the failure to remember the events that occurred after a _________.

Physical trauma

The interference by old learning with the ability to retrieve material learned recently is known as _________.

Proactive interference

Implicit memories involve methods and skills and are also referred to as _________ memories.

Procedural

________ memory is the memory to perform an act in the future, as at a certain time.

Prospective

Maintenance __________ involves mentally repeating a list or saying the information to oneself.

Rehearsal

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

Repression

__________ amnesia is the failure to remember events that occurred prior to physical trauma because of the effects of the trauma.

Retrograde

Memory for past events, activities, as shown by explicit and implicit memories, fall under the category of ________________ memory

Retrospective

General knowledge is referred to as __________ memory.

Semantic

___________________ is the tendency to recall more accurately the first and last items in a series.

Serial-position effect

___________ memory can hold information for up to a minute or so after the trace of the stimulus decays.

Short-term

Sensory memory is the type or stage of memory that is first encountered by a ___________.

Stimulus

The ____________ phenomenon is the feeling that information is stored in memory although it cannot be readily retrieved.

Tip-of-the-tongue

The series of eye fixations that we perceive as visual sensations seem continuous, or stream like, because of _____.

Saccadic eye movement

A _________ is a way of mentally representing the world, such as a belief or an expectation, which can influence perception of persons, objects, and situations.

Schema


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