Psychology 200: Chapter 6 Study Guide
___________________ 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 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
_____________ 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
__________________ memory is the memory to perform an act in the future, as at a certain time.
Prospective
__________________ amnesia is the failure to remember events that occurred prior to physical trauma because of the effects of the trauma.
Retrograde
_________-_______________ ____________ 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
Moods and ______________ affect prospective memory.
attitudes
Echoes are mental representation of an _______________ stimulus that are held briefly in sensory memory.
auditory
Episodic memory is also referred to as _________________________ memory.
autobiographical
Retrieval of stored information means locating it an returning it to __________________________.
consciousness.
A(n) ________ is a mental representation of a visual stimulus that is held briefly in sensory memory.
icon
The appearance of ______ _________________ in short-term memory displaces the old information.
new information
Retroactive active 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
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
Memory for past events, activities, as shown by explicit and implicit memories, fall under the category of ____________________ memory.
retrospective
the series of eye fixations that we perceive as visual sensations seem continuous, or stream like, because of ______________ _______ movement.
saccadic eye
A(n) _______________ 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
General knowledge is referred to as _________________ memory.
semantic
The ______-____-______-_____________ phenomenon is the feeling that information is stored in memory although it cannot be readily retrieved.
tip-of-the-tongue
Sensory memory is the type or stage of memory that is first encountered by a _____________.
stimulus.
A(n) ____________ is a stimulus or group of stimuli that are perceived as a discrete piece of information.
chunk