Semanticization of Remote Memories

The gradual decay of episodic details of a memory, leaving just the information and meaning

Expert-Induced Amnesia

The lack of attention needed to perform a task because of how well rehearsed and learned it is

Constructive Episodic Simulation Hypothesis

We take our previous memories and recombine the elements to produce future thinking

Prospective Memory

The memory that there is something you have to do in the future

Repetition Priming

When the present stimulus and the past stimulus are similar, the reaction to the present stimulus is increased

Infantile Amnesia

The inability to recall EPISODIC memories from your youngest years, usually before the ages of 3 or 4

Cryptomnesia

Unconscious plagarism

Source Monitoring

Keeping track of the origin of your learned memories; where you learned what you know

Illusory Truth Effect

The effect where fluency or the ease of retrieval makes information seem more believable and true

Reminiscence Bump

Better recall observed in the adolescent and young adult years

Cultural Script Hypothesis

The idea that the reminiscence bump may be due to the fact that in our culture, many large and eventful moments in life typically occur during the adolescence and young adult stage

Cognitive Hypothesis

The idea that the reminiscence bump may be due to a large period of learning followed by stability creating a better environment for learning

Self-Image Hypothesis

The idea that the reminiscence bump may be due to the importance of this time frame for our identity formation, thus making it memorable

Youth Bias

The bias suggesting that people assume their most important memories occur when you are younger

Flashbulb Memory

Memory for the CIRCUMSTANCES surrounding the moment you learn of a highly emotional and important event

Proust Effect

Smell induced vivid and emotional autobiographical memories

Pragmatic Inference

We have expectations for words in a sentence as we are reading or when viewing them incompletely (e.g. The newborn baby slept peacefully all night; crying is more expected than sleeping peacefully)

Event Potential

Averaging brain activity (in response to a given repeated stimulus) shown via EEG (electroencephalography) small time locked interval sampling

Hyperthymesia

An exceedingly detailed autobiographical memory (emphasis on date and event association)

Retrograde Amnesia

An impairment to the recall of memories close to the incident and before

Anterograde Amnesia

An impairment to ability to encode new memories after the incident

Cognitive interviews work by doing what three things?

Asking to witness to recreate emotions at the time of the incident, trying to imagine where they were looking and thus what they were seeing, and then trying to imagine the scene from multiple perspectives

Proust Effect

Smell induced recall of autobiographical memories with vivid and emotional details

Implicit Memory types include?

Priming, conditioning, and procedural memory

Explicit Memory types include?

Semantic and Episodic

MEAM's stands for?

Music enhanced autobiographical memory