Question |
Answer |
The process of getting information into the memory system. |
Encoding: |
The retention of encoded information in memory over time. |
Storage: |
The process of getting information out of memory stage. |
Retrieval |
German philosopher who conducted pioneering memory studies. |
Hermann Ebbinghaus |
Long-term memories that are especially resistant to forgetting and that are likely to last a lifetime. |
Permastore memory |
When an older memory disrupts the recall or a newer memory. |
Proactive interference |
When a more recent memory disrupts the recall of an older memory. |
Retroactive interference |
In Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, the process of moving anxiety producing memories to the unconscious mind. |
Repression |
Founder of psychoanalysis, a controversial theory about the workings of the unconscious mind. |
Sigmund Freud |
Psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, whose research established the constructed nature of memory. |
Elizabeth Loftus |
Incorporating misleading information into memory of an event. |
Misinformation effect |