Chapter 8 Flashcards
Psy
Memory
Persistence of learning over time through encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
Measures of memory
Recall
Recognition
Relearning
Recall
Retrieving information that is not currently in conscious awareness but was learned an early time
Recognition
Identity items previously learned
Relearning
Learning something more quickly when encountering it a second or later time
Information-processing model
Compares human memory to computer operations
Involves three processes: Encoding, storage retrieval
Sensory memory
The immediate process of memory
Short term memory
activated memory that holds a few items briefly before the information is stored or forgotten
Long term memory
working memory
automatic processes
process info outside of being consciously aware
central executive
working memory decides if you remember it or not
explicit memory
esaily recall and explain activly try to learn it
Implicit memory
memories you don’t conciues think about or actively try to remember ex: middle name
procedural memory
or automatic skills and classically conditioned associations among stimuli.