Memory Flashcards
What’s the definition of memory
The ability to store and later retrieve information
What’s a memory trace
A mental representation of a previous experience
associated to some physical change in the brain
What is memory encoding
Creating a memory trace
What is memory Storage
Maintaining this memory trace over time
What is memory retrieval
Accessing old memory traces
What does the sensory memory
Temporary storage of sense information
milliseconds to seconds
What does the short term memory do
information registered by sensory memory (typically for a few seconds)
Why is short term memory limited
distracted can lead to forgetting and also its limited by capacity.
Define the working memory
active
maintenance and manipulation of
information in short-term storage
Where is working memory localized/
lateral pre frontal cortex
What are the two places memory goes into within the long term memory.
Declarative and nondeclarative.
What comes under the nondeclarative part of long-term memory
skill learning, priming, conditioning
what comes under declarative(procedural) part of long term memory
episodic and semantic
what is episodic memory
• Memory of unique events
unique based on their context of occurrence: a specific time and place
What is semantic memory
• General world knowledge (such as knowledge of facts, events, concepts, objects,
and people), retrieved independently from its original spatial or temporal context
