Psychology Chapter 6
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