Ch7 - Memory Flashcards
What is memory?
Not “a memory”
Strucutres and processes involved in the storage and retrieval of information.
What is memory?
Encoding
Process of how information is initially learned
What is memory?
Storage
Process of maintaining information of a short or long time
What is memory?
Retrieval
Process involved in recovering information from memory to produce a response
Search metaphor
Uses terms that relate to searching in physical or virtual space to describe processes involved in memory
Reconstruction metaphor
Primarily using memory to put together a useful response from what we know and the context
Sensory memory
“mental representation of how environmental events look, sound, feel, smell, and taste”
Iconic memory
Visual memory of sensory memory
Echoic memory
Auditory form of sensory memory
Immediate memory
Short-term/working memory. Actively holds on to limited amount of information so it can be manipulated and processed.
Short term memory
Information storage in short term memory
List the 4 types
- Visually (images)
- Phonologically (sounds)
- Semantically (meaning)
- Action (motor patterns)
Characteristics of Immediate Memory
- Representation
- Duration
- Capacity
