PSYCH 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Multivibrator

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: Susan Krauss Whitbourne

Document Summary

Memory: memory is the process by which we encode, store, and retrieve information, encoding information is the most important for having a good memory, type of memory, sensory memory: includes sight and sound and lasts for 1 second, working memory: visual/spatial store, auditory store, and central executive; lasts for 15 25 seconds, long term memory: includes implicit and explicit memory and is stored permanently, types of long term memory, declarative memory: factual information. It includes semantic memory (general memory) and episodic memory (personal knowledge: procedural memory: skills and habits, emotional, and priming, tip of the tongue phenomenon: the inability to recall information that one realizes one knows, flashbulb memories: memories related to specific, important, or surprising events that are recalled easily with a vivid imagery, proactive interference: interference in which information learned earlier disrupts the recall of material learned later, retroactive interference: interference in which material that was learned later disrupts the retrieval of information that was learned earlier.