Memory

Memory in which people recall events in great detail is called

• Generic Memory
• Procedural Memory
• Iconic Memory
• Flashbulb Memory

Fading away of memory

• Amnesia
• Decay
• Interference 
• Repression

Memories easier to recollect in a particular setting/experience

• implicit memory
• State-dependent memories
• Context-dependent memories
• Interference

knowledge of skills, can't be stated clearly.

• implicit memory
• State-dependent memories
• Context-dependent memories
• Interference

Puts information in a form so it can be stored

• Encoding
• storage
• retrieval
• recognition

Short term memory is limited to about ___ items

• 3
• 5
• 7
• 0

loss of ability to store new long-term memories

• Anterograde amnesia
• infantile amnesia
• retrograde amnesia

Organization of itmes into familiar or manageable units

• Amnesia
• Grouping
• Chunking
• Eidetic

After looking up a phone number, Jim calls it, then forgets. The number was stored in his

• Short-Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Visual Memory
• Echoic Memory

What part of the brain turns STM to LTM?

• Frontal Lobe
• Cerebral Cortex
• Motor Cortex
• Hippocampus