Memory Flashcards
The capacity to preserve and recover information
memory
how memories are formed
encoding
how memories are kept over time
storage
how memories are recovered (and translated into performance)
retrieval
How many distinct phases of memory are there?
(atkinson/shiffrin model)
3
What are the 3 distinct phases of memory?
(atkinson/shiffrin model)
Sensory memory
Working memory (STM)
Long-term memory (LTM)
What was Phi phenomenon evidence for?
evidence for sensory memory
working memory is also called…
short term memory
Focused attention is typically associated with…
short term memory
Long term memories can be either
__________ or ___________ retrieved:
Consciously or Unconsciously
Long term Memory:
general info, undated (things you know: 1st president, etc.)
Exp. Facts you are tested on in class are examples of semantic declarative memories (who was the first psychologist?)
Sematic
LTM:
episodes of your life, dated images, events; like
“re-living”, including emotions
episodic
How memories are formed
Encoding
How memories are kept over time
storage
How memories are recovered (and translated into performance)
Retrieval
Increase STM capacity by
chunking
To Increase Duration of STM:
Maintenance Rehearsal
From sensory to working/STM
attention
to maintain in working memory:
maintenance rehearsal
biggest reason we fail to retrieve something that is in LTM
Interference
Memories interfere with one another
Interference
forgetting due to physiological damage or trauma
amnesia
cannot make new memories
anterograde
loss of memories from prior to the trauma
interograde
