Memory (psychology)

The part of your memory system that contains information you are consciously aware of before it is stored more permanently

• long term memory

• short term memory

• schema

The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system 

• long term memory

• short term memory

• schema

Why do people fail to encode?

• It’s unimportant to them
  

• it is not necessary to know the information

• a decrease in the brain's ability to encode

• all of the above

Long term memories that are resistant to forgetting and that are likely to last a lifetime

• permastore memory

• post memory

• schema

• proactive interference

A retrieval problem when one memory gets in the way of remembering another

• reference

• interference

• repression

When an older memory disrupts the recall of a newer memory.

• Regression

• short term memory loss

• proactive interference

When a more recent memory disrupts the recall of an older memory

• operant conditioning

• schema

• retroactive interference

Misinformation and suggestibility can lead children to:

• construct false memories

• think everything is true

• believe everything they hear

The retention of encoded information in memory over time.

• storage

• retrieval

• observational learning

Effortful processing is encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.

• True

• False