Chapter Seven: Memory

6. memories / Detailed, especially vivid memories of very specific highly changed events.
7. / Mental frameworks that develops from our experiences with particular people people, objects, or events.
8. / The process of establishing stabilizing, or solidifying a memory; the second stage of long-term memory formation.
10. amnesia / The inability to remember events and experiences that occur after an injury or the onset of a disease.
13. interference / Disruption of memory because new experiences or information causes people to forget previously learned experiences or information.
17. curve / A graphic depiction of how recall steadily declines over time.
19. interference / Disruption of memory because previously learned information interferes with the learning of new information.
21. memory / The part of memory required to attend to and solve a problem at hand.
23. memory / Form of memory that recalls facts and general knowledge, such as what we learn in school.
24. executive / Decides where to focus attention and selectively hones in on specific aspects of a stimulus.
25. mindedness / A form of forgetfulness that results from inattention.
26. / The inability to retrieve some information once it is stored.

1. / The retention of memory over time; the third stage of long-term memory formation.
2. / The process of reciting or practicing material repeatedly.
3. / Memory loss due to brain injury or disease.
4. cortex / The front most region of the frontal lobes that plays an important role in attention, appropriate social behavior, impulse control, and working memory.
5. network / A chain of associations between related concepts.
9. / Disruption of memory because other information competes with the information we are trying to recall.
11. potentiation / Strengthening of a synaptic connection that results when synapse of one neuron repeatedly fires and excites another neuron.
12. / A way of organizing related pieces of information from the most specific feature they have in common to the most general.
14. / The recovery of information stored in the memory; the fourth stage of long-term memory
15. device / A method of devised to help remember information, such as a rhyme or acronym.
16. / The weakening or loss of memories over time.
18. memory / Form of memory that recalls the experiences we have had.
20. memory / Knowledge that consist of the conscious recall of facts and events; also known as declarative memory.
22. / The process by which the brain attends to, takes in, and integrates new information; the stage of long- term memory formation.