1. memory

2. The ability to remember things you’ve experienced, imagined or learned

3. Sensory Registers

4. Prioritize stimuli to determine the order in attention will be given

5. Attention

6. Selection of info for further processing

7. STM

8. Capacity of 15-20 seconds

9. Chunking

10. Grouping info to ease remembering

11. 2 ways to encode STM

12. Phonologically and by shape/size

13. Rote Rehearsal

14. Saying something over and over again to lengthen STM or commit to LTM

15. LTM

16. Everything we know, permanent info

17. Verbatim memory

18. “Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday, Dear so and so. Happy Birthday to you!”

19. Serial Position Effect

20. Remembering the beginning and end, but not the middle

21. Elaborative Rehearsal

22. Linking new info to old info

23. Episodic Memory

24. Plays as a video file of memory

25. Semantic

26. Encyclopedic information

27. Procedural

28. Motor skills and habits that require no conscious thought

29. Emotional

30. Learned responses/feeling; sad angry, shamed

31. Priming

32. Giving hints to uncover buried explicit memory

33. Decay Theory

34. Memory is given little/no attention, so it degenerates and eventually disappears

35. Interference

36. Saying random numbers as a friend tries to remember your phone number, using rote rehearsal

37. Situational Factors

38. Remembering something by being in the same environment

39. State Dependent Memory

40. Memory based on mental state at time memory was formed

41. Reconstructed Memories

42. Memories that have been “rewritten” over time

43. Autobiographical Memory

44. Episodic memories of personal events; the type of memory that makes us human

45. Childhood Amnesia

46. Forgetting experiences that occur before age 2

47. Flashbulb Memory

48. Vivid Memory that never dulls; ex where you were on 9/11