Across
- 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.
Down
- 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.