Psychology Chapter 7

4. Important memories that we can remember every detail.
5. The mental representations that we form of the world by organizing bits of information into knowledge.
6. occurs when we perceive information in our environment and, in concert with our thoughts and feelings, covert it into a form ready for storage
8. People forget the period leading up to a traumatic even
11. sensory memory in vision
12. General Knowledge people remember
14. the organization of items into familiar, manageable units
15. how much information is stored
16. how long memory is stored
17. learning by imitating others; copying behavior
18. The fading of a memory
22. an ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory after only a few instances of exposure, with high precision for some time after exposure, without using mnemonics. It occurs in a small number of children and generally is not found in adults
23. the storage of information in the brain for later access that allows learning to persist and guide our future behavior
25. the tendency to recall the initial items in a series

1. Bringing information back into mind
2. Occurs when new information appears in short-term memory and takes place of what is already there.
3. the decreased accuracy of episodic memories because of information provided after the event
7. technique in which the desired behavior is molded by first rewarding any act similar to that behavior and then requiring closer approximations to the desired behavior before giving the reward
9. sensory memory in hearing
10. Forgetting events of the early years
13. the tendency to recall the last items in a series
19. Memory loss from trauma that prevents a person from forming new memories.
20. occurs when we access information stored in the brain from past experience
21. responding similarly to a range of similar stimuli
24. maintenance of the encoded information in our brains for later access