Psychology Of Learning And Memory

A tendency for individuals to become more confident of an errant decision following positive feedback

A form of memory that reflects events from the individual's past that includes specific contextual details

A form of memory that reflects events from the individual's past but lacks specific contextual details

A paradigm where individuals are given a word and asked to recall a related autobiographical memory

The finding that recall of autobiographical memories tends to be centered around the late teens and early 20's

The finding that individuals often cannot report specific events that occurred before age 2

A task used to study illusory memory that involves encoding semtanically related lists of words

A task used to study the malleability of eyewitness memory that involves presenting a video or series of slides followed by a written description of the event

A task used to study the confirmation bias effect in eyewitness identification

A task that is used to study memory for remote events that asks individuals to recall episodes from specific periods of life

A method of testing eyewitness identification that involves the presentation of a single individual in a forced choice format

A method of testing eyewitness identification that involves the presentation of several individuals (5+) in a recognition format

The finding that memory accuracy and confidence are often weakly correlated in studies of eyewitness memory

Amnesia that causes greater loss of memories for events that occurred recently before a trauma than for events that occurred more remotely in the past

Hypothesis proposed by Ribot that the likelihood that a particular memory will be lost due to injury is inversely related to the time elapsed between the event to be remembered and the injury

The negative influence of materials learned after a target item on subsequent memory for the target event

Sudden and severe disruption of the representation of relationships between items in an existing memory network

To undergo an active process through which a new and initially changeable or labile memory becomes permanent

A form of consolidation that involves alterations of our knowledge networks through complex interactions between brain structures lasting for weeks to years after learning experiences

Loss of memories formed prior to the onset of amnesia