PSYC 107 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Visual Memory, Anterograde Amnesia, Sensory Memory

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 107
• Professor: Jack Bodden

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Context-dependence memory can be helped or hindered by similarities or differences between learning and recall environments. Like a fill in the blank answer choice. Good for short term, but bad for long term. Relating new info to old info and memory. A lapse in attention that results in memory failure. The process of organizing information into meaningful groupings. Briefly holds information for processing, very short memory. Unable to encode new long term memories, but you can learn new motor skills. Memory that we intentionally try and bring up. Old information hurts the recall of new information. Remembering a specific event in time, like an event. General information retrival the process of getting information out of memory storage. When the storage or retrieval process is impaired. It is easier to remember things hear most recent on a list. When a memory is retrieved, it is altered you usually fill in gaps with existing knowledge.