Review terms for exam 1, PSY 383

Note: This is only a partial list of terms and concepts. There may be other terms and concepts with which you should be familiar. In order to perform well on an exam, you should not only know the definition of a concept, but be able to provide examples or experiments that support it.

Herman Ebbinghaus
Forgetting curve
Methods to evaluate memory
Serial Learning
Free recall earning
Cued recall
Recogition tests
Study-test procedure
Implicit memory Explicit memory
The Multiple memory system
Sensory Store
Iconic and echoic memory
Short term memory (Working memory)
Brown-Peterson Distractor task
Sternberg's Serial scanning task
Long term Memory
Serial position curve
Recency and Primacy effects
Representations in Long Term memory
Semantic Networks
Hierarchical and Spreading activation network models
Semantic Priming
Encoding
Explicit vs. incidental learning
Limits on encoding (attention, sensory processes, motivation)
Improving encoding (organization, chunking, warmup, distributed
practice, overlearning, large knowledge base, encoding meaning)
Levels of processing
Maintenance vs. elaborative rehearsal
The generation effect
Forgetting
Forgetting curves
Permastore
Retention of declarative vs. non-declarative memories
Decay vs interference theories of forgetting
Consolidation
Proactive vs. retroactive interference
Availability vs. accessibility of information
Motivated forgetting
Cue-dependent forgetting
tip of the tongue phenomenon
context dependent memory
Retrospective and Prospective memory


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