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phenomena called when people cannot recall events that occured before the age of 2

childhood amnesia

this is a means of organizing information into meaningful units of 3 to 7 terms

chunking

phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much the same way that a partygoer can focus on a single converation in a noisy room. this effect is what allows most people to "tune into" a single voice and "tune out" all others

cocktail party phenomenon

the ability to remember the things we have experienced, imagined and learned is known as

memory

techiniques that make material easier to remember

mnemonists

retroactive interference of long term memory means

new information interferes with information already in memory

moved to a new house and cant remmber the new number it gets mixed up with the old one

proactive

recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall

reconstructive memory

rote rehearsal

retaining information in STM simply by repeating it over and over

have difficulty skiing bcause you just learned to how to snowboard

retroactive

jonathan is recovering from an automobile accident in which he injured his head the only noticable psychological sympton of his injury is that he cannot remmeber what happened immediately prior to the accident. his sypton are typical of

retrograde amnesia

having to remember the prices of 5 different peanut butters by repeating them again and again

rote rehearsal

relating new information to something you already know

schema

portion of long term memory that stores general facts and information

semantic memory

these receive sensory information from external world

sensory registers

what we are thinking at any given moment

short term memory

acronyms are useful for

to help memorize

elaborative rehearsal

try to memorize the term neauron so you look it up, and the purpose and study of the diagrams and how it relates to things you already know - have a meaningful memory behind it

synoymous with short term memory

working memory

permanant memory is

long term memory

memory for information that we cannot readily express and may not be aware of having. cannot be intentionally retrieved

implicit memory

interference theory

information gets mixed up with or pushed other information in short term memory, making it harder to remember

the passing of time and not using information causes forgetting

decay theory

photographic memory

eidetic memory

the linking of new information in short term memory to familiar material stored in long term memory

elaborative material

my first kiss at the high school

episodic

portion of long term memory that stores more specific information that has personal meaning

episodic memory

memory for information we can readily express and are aware of having. this information can be intentionally recalled

explicit memory