Chapter 7 Psychology

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Anterograde Amnesia
Loss of memory for events that occur after a head injury
Attention
Focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events
Chunk
A group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit
Clustering
Tendancy to remember similar or related items in groups
Conceptual hierarchy
Multilevel classification system based on common properties among items
Connectionist Models
PDP models
Consolidation
Hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of the information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory
Decay theory
The idea that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time
Declarative memory system
Memory for factual information
Dual-coding theory
Paivo's theory that memory is inhanced by forming semantic and visual codes, since either can lead to recall
Elaboration
Linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding
Encoding
Forming a memory code
Encoding specific principal
The idea that the value of a retreival cue depends on how well it corresponds to the memory code
Episodic memory system
Chronological recollations of personal experiences
Explicit memory
Intentional recollation of previous experiences