GEN PSYCH CHAPTER 7 Flashcards
ENCODING is __________.
The act of putting information into memory
THE STORED CODE that represents a piece of information that has been encoded into memory.
MEMORY TRACES
THE PLACE WHERE INFORMATION IS RETAINED IN MEMORY
STORAGE
THE PROCESS OF ACCESSING INFORMATION IN MEMORY AND PULLING IT INTO CONSCIOUSNESS
RETRIEVAL
CONSCIOUSNESS IS ___________.
an organism’s awareness of its own mental processes and/or its environment
EXPLICIT MEMORY is ___________
the CONSCIOUS use of memory
ATTENTION is ___________
an organism’s ability to focus its consciousness on some aspect of its mental processes and/or its environment
THE UNCONSCIOUS USE OF MEMORY
IMPLICIT MEMORY
EXPLICIT MEMORY RELIES HEAVILY ON ___________.
LANGUAGE
PULLING INTO YOUR DRIVEWAY, NOT RECALLING THE LAST FEW MILES OF YOUR RIDE HOME is an example of __________.
IMPLICIT MEMORY
EXAMPLES OF IMPLICIT MEMORY ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS:
Classical conditioning, motor skills, habits, priming, perceptual learning.
A system of memory that very briefly stores SENSORY IMPRESSIONS so that we can extract relevant information from them for further processing
SENSORY MEMORY
The STUDY OF COGNITION grew in psychology from ______________
THE 1960’s TO THE 1980’s.
When information enters memory, its first stop is ____________
SENSORY MEMORY
SENSORY MEMORY IS INFORMATION THAT IS RECEIVED THROUGH OUR
SENSES (EYES, EARS, AND OTHER SENSES)
