AP Psychology Memory and Cognition

Organization of items into familiar or manageable units

What type of memory is involved when Jim forgets a phone number he just called? Options: Short-Term Memory, Long Term Memory, Visual Memory, Echoic Memory

The process of filing information into your memory is...

Our long-term memory capacity is

______ involves maintaing encoded information in memory over time.

What is it called when new information impairs the retention of previously learned information?

Disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information (Forward Acting)

The idea that we remember the first and last items in a list the best.

the process of getting information out of memory storage.

Which researcher is most associated with research about the misinformation effect? Options: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Sigmund Freud, Elizabeth Loftus, John Watson