Chapter 6 Memory

the most common form of dementia in older people, leads to severe cogitive loss due to the deterioation of brain tissue

• Alzeimer's disease

• antegrade amnesia

• false memory syndrome

• retrograde amnesia

disorder characterized by severe memory loss

• alzheimer's disease

• amnesia

• anterograde amnesia

• forgetting

loss of memory from the point of injury or trauma forward, or the inability to form new long-term memories.

• amnesia

• anterograde amnesia

• engram

• retrograde amnesia

tendency of certain kinds of information to enter long-term memory with little or no effortful encoding.

• automatic encoding

• elaborative encoding

• encoding specificity

• memory trace

the process of regrouping material in memory in order to combine smaller pieces into one larger unit

• engram

• decay

• consilidation

• chunking

ability to focus attention on a specefic stimulus while filtering out a myriad of other stimuli

• selective focus

• flashbulb effect

• consilidation

• cocktail party effect

the changes that take place in the structure and functioning of neurons when a memory is formed

• chunking

• consilidation

• constructive

• rehearsal

referring to the retrieval of memories in which those memories are built , revised, or influenced by newer information during encoding

• levels of processing

• information-precessing

• constructive processing

• consilidation

a graph showing a distinct pattern in which forgetting is very fast within the first hour after learning a list and then tapers off gradually.

• consilidation

• constructive process

• curve of forgetting

• decay

loss of memory due to the passage of time, during which the memory trace is not used.

• encoding

• memory

• decay

• curve of forgetting