Ch8-P239-249Reverse Flashcards
The mental capacity to encode, store and retrieve information.
Memory?
A conscious effort to encode or recover information through memory processes
explicit use of memory?
the availability of information through memory processes without conscious effort to encode or recover information
Implicit use of memory?
Memory for information such as facts and events
Declarative Memory?
Memory for how things get done; the way perceptual, cognitive and motor skills are acquired, retained and used.
Procedural Memory?
The process by which a mental representation is formed in memory
Encoding?
The retention of encoded material over time.
Storage?
The recovery of stored information from memory
Retrieval?
Memory system in the visual domain that allows large amounts of information to be stored for very brief durations.
Iconic memory?
A memory process associated with preservation of recent experiences and with retrieval of information from long term memory.
Short Term Memory (STM)?
The process of taking single items of information and recording them on the basis of similarity or another organising principle.
Chunking?
A memory resource that is used to accomplish tasks such as reasoning and language comprehension.
Working Memory?
Memory processes associated with the preservation of information for retrieval at any later time.
Long term memory (LTM)?
An internal or external generated stimuli available to help with the retrieval of a memory
Retrieval cue?
A method of retrieval in which an individual is required to reproduce the information previously presented.
Recall?
