Cognitive Key Words Flashcards
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Sensory buffer
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Gateway to short term store, decides if memory is salient
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Salient
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Meaningful, relevant, important incoming stimuli
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Short term store
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Can hold roughly seven pieces of information for thirty seconds
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Long term store
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Potential infinite memory can be held indefinitely
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Capacity
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Measure of the amount that can be held in the memory
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Duration
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Measure of how long a memory lasts before it is no longer available
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Encoding
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How information is stored
• acoustic
• visual
• semantic
