Chapter 6. Pschy.

Infantile Amnesia

Unable to recall childhood events (caused by hippocampus)

Anterograde Amnesia

Unable to remember events after physical trauma

Retrograde Amnesia

Unable to remember events before physical trauma

Echoic Memory

briefly holds mental reprenstations

Engram

circuit in the brain that corresponds to a memory trace

Tip-Of-the-Tongue (TOT)

Feeling-of-knowing Experience

Repression

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

State-dependent

information better retrieved in physiological or emotional state in which it was learned

Displace

information to be lost from short-term memory by adding new information

Schema

way of mentally representing the world; belief or expectation, can influence people, objects, and situations

Chunk

Stimulus or group of stimuli that is perceived as a discrete piece of info

Eidetic Imagary

Maintenance of visual memory in a couple minutes