[Introduction To Psychology - PSY111] WileyPlus Ch.7 Matching Quiz

A progressive mental deterioration that occurs most commonly in old age and is characterized by severe memory loss.

Alzheimer's Disease

The inability to form new memories.

Anterograde Amnesia

A learning technique in which practice sessions are interspersed with rest periods.

Distributed Practice

The sub-system within long-term memory that consists of skills acquired through repetitive practice, habits, and simple classically conditioned responses.

Implicit/Nondeclarative Memory

Long-lasting increase in neural excitability.

Long-Term Potential

The process of repeating the contents of short-term memory over and over to maintain it in stm.

Maintenance Rehearsal

A memory improvement technique based on encoding items in a specific way.

Mnemonic

A model of memory in which knowledge is represented as connections among interacting processing units that are distributed in a vast network and that are all operating in parallel.

Parallel Distributed Processing Approach

The process by which an earlier encounter with a stimulus, such as a word or picture, increases the likelihood of that stimulus or a related stimulus being remembered at a later time.

Priming

Attributing an event that we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined to a wrong source.

Source Amnesia