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When you remember how to ride a bicycle without consciously thinking about the steps, you're using this type of "body memory" that survives even when other memories fade.
Difficulty: Easy- Procedural memory
- Working memory
- Episodic memory
- Semantic memory
In Baddeley's model, this component stores about 2 seconds of speech sounds through subvocal rehearsal—which is why phone numbers are hard to remember if they take longer to say.
Difficulty: Medium- Phonological loop
- Episodic buffer
- Visuospatial sketchpad
- Articulatory control process
In contrast to standard testing effect findings, errorful generation followed by feedback sometimes produces better learning than error-free study, depending on error type and correction timing.
Difficulty: Hard- Error-corrected learning
- Hypercorrection effect
- Productive failure
- Learning from mistakes
This phenomenon explains why you can recognize your friend's face instantly but struggle to describe it in detail to a sketch artist.
Difficulty: Easy- State-dependent learning
- Encoding specificity
- Implicit memory
- Recognition over recall
When practicing skills, a 24-hour rest period produces substantial improvement without additional practice—a phenomenon suggesting the brain continues learning offline.
Difficulty: Medium- Spontaneous recovery
- Reminiscence effect
- Memory consolidation gains
- Latent learning
The engram amnesia hypothesis proposes that many cases of amnesia involve retrieval failure rather than storage failure, since engrams persist and can be artificially reactivated.
Difficulty: Hard- Silent engram hypothesis
- Storage vs retrieval amnesia
- Retrieval impairment model
- Engram accessibility theory
Breaking a phone number into groups of three or four digits rather than memorizing ten individual numbers demonstrates this capacity-boosting technique.
Difficulty: Easy- Elaborative rehearsal
- Method of loci
- Chunking
- Dual coding
After brain damage, some patients can learn new facts but not remember learning them, while others show the reverse—suggesting these are separate systems with different neural bases.
Difficulty: Medium- Implicit vs explicit memory
- Recognition vs recall
- Semantic vs episodic memory
- Encoding vs retrieval
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