unit 7 to 10 test review psychology

the persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information

• Recall
• Memory
• Forgetting
• Comprehension

retention of learn skills or classically conditioned associations without conscious awareness or effort

• Procedural memory
• Declarative memory
• Implicit memory
• Explicit memory

the facts and experiences we consciously know and declare

• implicit memory
• tacit memory
• explicit memory
• overt memory

the immediate very brief recording of sensory information

• Short-term Memory
• Long-term Memory
• Working Memory
• Sensory Memory

about seven bites of information stored during the short-term stage

• about three bites of information
• short term memory

• about ten bites of information
• about five bites of information

organizing items into familiar manageable units often occurs automatically

• Categorizing
• Segmenting
• Grouping
• Chunking

The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice.

• spacing effect

• Intensive learning
• Block studying
• Cramming

clear memories of emotionally significant events (they represented a snapshot of the event)

• Flashbulb memories
• Camera flash memories
• Lightning memories
• Photographic memories

serve as anchor points for Pathways that can be followed to access a memory

• Pathway markers
• Memory triggers
• Recollection cues
• Retrieval cues

the tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list

• Serial Position Effect
• Recency Effect
• Primacy Effect
• Spacing Effect