Cognitive Flashcards
Memory
Learning that has persisted over time through storage and retrieval
Ebblinghaus Forgetting Curve
How our memory retention withstands over time
Parallel processing
Processing many aspects at once
Serial processing
Step by step processing, like a computer
Automatic Processing
Unconscious encoding of incidental info
Effortful Processing
Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort
Visual Encoding
Memorizing visual images
Acoustic Encoding
Memorizing sounds
Semantics
Remembering meaning of words
Explicit memory
Memory concerning facts and events
Implicit memory
Memory completed without awareness
Procedural memory
Style of implicit memory which aids the performance of specific tasks… like riding a bike
Iconic Memory
Sensory memory of a visual stimuli
Memory AIDS
Self explanatory
Encoding
The processing of information into the memory system-for example, by extracting meaning.
Storage
The retention of encoding information over time
Retrieval
The process of getting information out of memory storage
Sensory Memory
The immediate very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system
Short term memory
Activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the memory is stored or forgotton
Long-term memory
The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences.
Working memory
the part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.
Parallel Processing
is the ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality. Parallel processing is associated with the visual system in that the brain divides what it sees into four components: color, motion, shape, and depth.
Automatic Processing
Unconscious encoding of incidental information. Such as space time and frequency as well as well-learned information like word meaning
Effortful Processimg
Active processing of information that requires sustained effort.
Rehearsal
cognitive process in which information is repeated over and over as a possible way of learning and remembering it
Spacing Effect
the finding that long-term memory is enhanced when learning events are spaced apart in time, rather than massed in immediate succession
Serial Position Effect
Our tendency to recall best the last and first terms in a list
Visual Encoding
The encoding of picture images
Acoustic Encoding
The encoding of sounds, especially the sound of words
Semantic Encoding
The encoding of meaning including the meaning of words
Imagery
representations and the accompanying experience of sensory information without a direct external stimulus
Mnemonics
any device or technique used to assist memory, usually by forging a link or association between the new information to be remembered and information previously encoded