Memory

Remembering information from the past.

Which area of the brain is associated with emotional memories?

The ability to maintain attention to a selected stimulus for a prolonged period of time.

Tendency to recall items at the beginning and end of a list more readily than in the middle.

Which level of processing produces better memory?

Theory suggesting that the passage of time always increases forgetting.

Combo of short-term memory & attention; holds info temporarily while performing cognitive tasks

Person's knowledge about the world.

Most forgetting takes place..

How long is short-term memory usually retained without retention strategies?

Activation of info that people have in storage to help them remember new info better & faster.

The first step in the memory process by which information gets into memory storage.

Eyewitness testimony is a trusty way to identify a perpetrator.

The Atkinson-Shiffrin Theory states that memory involves 3 separate systems, what are they?

Conscious recall of info; specific facts or events; can be verbally communicated.

Preexisting mental concept or framework, helps people organize and interpret info.

Formation of a number of different connections around a stimulus at a given level of encoding.

Memories are not stored in one area of the brain, rather in several areas that work together.

Concentrating on more than one activity at the same time.

The retention of information or experience over time; result of encoding, storage & retrieval