Alzheimer’s disease – a disease primarily of elderly
adults that causes dementia as well as progressive
memory loss.
Amnesia – severe loss of explicit memory
Anterograde amnesia – the inability to remember events
that occur after a traumatic event.
Central Executive – both coordinates attentional
activities and governs responses.
Episodic Buffer – a limited capacity system that is
capable of binding information from the subsidiary
systems and from long-term memory into a unitary
episodic representation.
Episodic Memory – stores personally experienced events
or episodes.
Explicit Memory – when participants engage in
conscious recollection
Hypermnesia – process of producing retrieval of
memories that seem to have been forgotten.
Hypothetical Constructs – concepts that are not
themselves directly measurable or observable but that
serve as mental models for understanding how a
psychological phenomenon works
Iconic Store – a discrete visual sensory register that
holds information for very short periods of time.
Implicit Memory – when we recollect something but are
not consciously aware that we are trying to do so.
Infantile Amnesia – the inability to recall events that
happened when we were very young
Levels of processing framework – postulates that
memory does not comprise three or even any specific
number of separate stores but rather varies along a
continuous dimension in terms of depth encoding.
Long term store – very large capacity, capable of storing
information for very long periods, perhaps indefinitely.
Memory – the means by which we retain and draw on
our past experiences to use this information in the
present.
Mnemonist – someone who demonstrates extraordinarily
keen memory ability, usually based on the use of special
techniques for memory enhancement.
Prime – a node that activates a connected node, this
activation is known as the priming effect.
Priming – the facilitation in ones ability to utilize
missing information; occurs when recognition of certain
stimuli is affected by prior presentation of the same or
similar stimuli
Phonological Loop – briefly holds inner
speech for verbal comprehension and for
acoustic rehearsal.
Priming effect – the resulting activation
of the node
Recall – to produce a fact, a word, or other
item from memory.
Recognition – to select or otherwise
identify an item as being one that you
learned previously.
Retrograde Amnesia – occurs when
individuals lose their purposeful memory
for events prior to whatever trauma
induces memory loss
Semantic Memory – stores general world
knowledge
Sensory store – capable of storing
relatively limited amounts of information
for very brief periods
Short term store – capable of storing
information for somewhat longer periods
but also relatively limited capacity
Visuospatial sketchpad – briefly holds
some visual images
Working Memory – hold only the most
recently activated portion of long-term
memory, and it moves these activated
elements into and out of brief, temporary
memory storage.