c6 psy 101

1. Type of automatic encoding that occurs because an unexpected event has strong emotional associations for the person remembering it.
4. An active system that processes the information in short-term memory.
6. Loss of memory due to the passage of time, during which the memory trace is not used.
7. Another name for decay, assuming that memories that are not used will eventually decay and disappear.
8. The system of memory into which all the information is placed to be kept more or less permanently.
9. Tendency to remember information at the beginning of a body of information better than the information that follows.
10. Memory problem that occurs when newer information prevents or interferes with the retrieval of older information.
11. Loss of memory from the point of injury or trauma forward, or the inability to form new long-term memories.
12. Failure to process information into memory.
13. The tendency to falsely believe, through revision of older memories to include newer information, that one could have correctly predicted the outcome of an event.
14. Type of declarative memory containing general knowledge, such as knowledge of language and information learned in formal education.
15. Type of long-term memory containing information that is conscious and known.

2. Type of declarative memory containing personal information not readily available to others, such as daily activities and events.
3. The retrieval of memories in which those memories are altered, revised, or influenced by newer information.
5. Practice of saying some information to be remembered over and over in one’s head in order to maintain it in short-term memory.