AP Psychology Memory

AP Psychology Memory Memory - answer-the power of retaining and recalling past experience episodic memory - answer-Memory of one's personal experiences semantic memory - answer-your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts procedural memory - answer-memory of learned skills that does not require conscious recollection. encoding - answer-the processing of information into the memory system storage - answer-the retention of encoded information over time retrieval - answer-the process of getting information out of memory storage Three box information processing model - answer-This model proposes that there are three stages that information passes through before it is stored. sensory memory - answer-the immediate, initial recording of sensory information in the memory system. 2, 1/2 seconds short term memory - answer-activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten serial position effect - answer-our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list chunking - answer-organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically. rote - answer-memorization by repetition displacement - answer-defense mechanism in which unwanted feelings are directed towards a different object long term memory - answer-the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system consolidation - answer-A hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory. schemas - answer-a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information eye witness accounts - answer-The most unreliable evidence in a criminal case, people that witness an event first hand. decay theory - answer-proposes that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time flashbulb memory - answer-a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event