Psych: Memory
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- Afterimage
- A visual image that persists after a stimulus is removed.
- Amnesia
- A significant memory loss that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting. See also Anterograde amnesia, Retrograde amnesia.
- Anterograde amnesia
- Loss of memories for events that occur after a head injury.
- Attention
- Loss of memories for events that occur after a head injury.
- Chunk
- Focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events.
- Clustering
- A group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit.
- Cognition
- The tendency to remember similar or related items in groups.
- Conceptual hierarchy
- The mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge.
- Connectionist models
- A multilevel classification system based on common properties among items.
- Consolidation
- See parallel distributed processing (PDP) models.
- Decay theory
- A hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory.
- Declarative memory system
- The idea that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time.
- Dual-coding theory
- Paivio's theory that memory is enhanced by forming semantic and visual codes, since either can lead to recall.
- Elaboration
- Linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding.
- Electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB)
- Sending a weak electric current into a brain structure to stimulate (activate) it.