Ch.7 Memory Flashcards
Recall
retrieving something from memory with NO clues (1QQ)
Recognition
Retrieving something from memory with clues (multipliable choice test )
Relearning
time saved from already knowing something
Sensory memory
the memory inside your senses
iconic memory
from eyes, visual memory
echoic memory
from ears, acoustic memory
selective memory
how information goes from sensory memory to short-term memory
7 plus or minus 2
The number of things that can be held in your short-term memory (STM)
automatic processing
no thinking involved all muscle memory
effortful processing
opposite of automatic, involves thinking and goes through the hippocampus
implicit memory
how to do something, same thing as procedural memory
procedural memory
how to do something, same thing as implicit memory
explicit memory
also called declarative memory, falls under effortful processing
semantic memory
general knowledge, falls under effortful processing
episodic memory
personal events in your life, falls under effortful processing
