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- Serial position effect
- people often remember the last and first items better than the middle items when learning a list
- Mnemonic devices
- memory aids which use imagery (e.g., Method of Loci, “King Henry Died Monday…â€)
- Implicit Memory (procedural memory)
- retention without conscious recollection (skills, preferences, and dispositions).
- Iconic Memory
- momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli, a photographic or picture-image memory lasting less than a second
- Echoic Memory
- momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli.
- Explicit Memory (declarative memory)
- the memory of facts or experiences that one can consciously know and “declareâ€
- Hippocampus
- – brain structure vital in gradual processing of our explicit memories into long-term memory. Implicit memories are processed by the cerebellum.
- Recall
- memory in which the person must retrieve info. Learned earlier (e.g., fill-in-the-blank test, sketch of suspect)
- Recognition
- person needs only identify items previously learned (e.g., multiple-choice test, pick suspect out of line up)
- Relearning
- a memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when relearning previously learned information
- Priming
- – identifying one of the strands that leads to a specific memory
- Mood congruent
- we tend to remember memories that are associated with a particular mood (e.g., having someone break up with you brings back memories of other bad things that have happened)
- Proactive interference
- Disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information
- Retroactive interference
- the disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information
- Misinformation effect
- incorporating misleading information into a memory.
- Source amnesia
- – failing to remember the source of an event. (e.g., remembering someone’s face but having no idea where you met them)