| amnesia | The loss of memory. p. 338
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| anterograde amnesia | A memory disorder that affects the retention of new information or events p. 338
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| Atkinson-Shiffrin theory | The view that memory involves a sequence of three stages: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. p. 311
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| connectionism (parallel distributed processing) | The theory that memory is stored throughout the brain in connections between neurons, several of which may work together to process a single memory. p. 323
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| decay theory | States that when something new is learned, a neurochemical memory trace is formed, but over time this trace tends to disintegrate. p. 337
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| elaboration | The extensiveness of processing at any given level of memory. p. 309
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| encoding | The way in which information gets into memory storage. p. 308
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| episodic memory | The retention of information about the where and when of life's happenings. p. 316
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| explicit memory (declarative memory) | The conscious recollection of information, such as specific facts or events and, at least in humans, information that can be verbally communicated. p. 316
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| implicit memory (nondeclarative memory) | Memory in which behavior is affected by prior experience with-out that experience being consciously recollected. p. 325
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| interference theory | States that people forget not because memories are actually lost from storage but because other information gets in the way of what we want to remember. p. 337
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| levels of processing theory | States that memory is on a continuum from shallow to deep, with deeper processing producing better memory. p. 308
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| long-term memory | A relatively permanent type of memory that holds huge amounts of information for a long period of time. p. 315
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| memory | The retention of information over time through encoding, storage, and retrieval. p. 306
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| priming | A type of implicit memory; information that people already have in storage is activated to help them remember new information better and faster. p. 319
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| proactive interference | Occurs when material that was learned earlier disrupts the recall of material learned later. p. 337
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| procedural memory | Memory for skills. p. 318
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| prospective memory | Remembering information about doing something in the future. p. 317
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| retrieval | The memory process of taking information out of storage. p. 326
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| retroactive interference | Occurs when material learned later disrupts the retrieval of information learned earlier. p. 337
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| retrograde amnesia | A memory disorder that involves memory loss for a segment of the past but not for new events. p. 339
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| retrospective memory | Remembering the past. p. 318
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| schema | A concept or framework that already exists at a given moment in a person's mind and that organizes and interprets information. p. 128
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| script | A schema for an event. p. 322
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| semantic memory | A person's knowledge about the world. p. 316
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| sensory memory | Holds information from the world in its original form only for an instant, not much longer than the brief time it is exposed to the visual, auditory, and other senses. p. 312
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| serial position effect | The tendency for items at the beginning and at the end of a list to be recalled more readily. p. 327
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| short-term memory | A limited-capacity memory system in which information is retained for only as long as 30 seconds unless strategies are used to retain it longer. p. 313
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| storage | Ways in which information is retained over time and how it is represented in memory. p. 311
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| working memory | A three-part system that temporarily holds information. Working memory is a kind of mental workbench on which information is manipulated and assembled to perform other cognitive tasks. p. 314
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