CHA 5 MEMORY Flashcards
What are the 3 tasks of memory?
Encoding, storage, retrieval
What are the 3 STAGES of memory?
Sensory, Working, and LTM
What’s chunking?
Organizing information into smaller units of digestible information
Sensory Mem
shortest stage; sight, smell, sound, texture
Working Mem
attaches meaning to stimuli/information
What’s the capacity of W.M.
about 7 items
What are the 2 main components of LTM
Procedural and declarative
What is declarative memory?
Part of LTM. stores facts, impressions, events (what you know about the world)
What is procedural memory?
Part of LTM. includes memory skills, operant/classical conditioning. IE once you learn to ride a bike you’ll always know how to.
Whats Semantic memory
Personal database; word meanings, concepts etc
Whats episodic memory?
Also a personal database, episodes of your life. Comes with time tags or temporal coding
Whats implicit memory?
Operates outside of your awareness
Whats explicit memory?
Memory processed with attention
Anterograde amnesia
Inability to form new memories after a traumatic event
Retrograde amnesia
Inability to remember information previously stored
What does the word “Mnemonic” mean?
Greek for remember
Prospective memory
Remembering to remember
Retroactive interference
new information prevents remembering old information
Proactive interference
old memories disrupt learning new information
Whats the primacy effect?
relative ease of remembering the first items on a list
Whats the recency effect?
relative ease remembering the last items on a list
WHats Persistence?
unwanted memories are unable to be put out of the mind
Whats Misattribution?
A memory fault that occurs when memories are retrieved but they’re associated with the wrong time, place or person.
