Memory

Question 1

What is memory?

Answer 1

-Consequence of information processing
-Reason previously processed information can affect current information processing

Question 2

What is the direct influence of memory?

Answer 2

Deliberate attempt to search/retrieve past experience

Question 3

What is indirect influence of memory?

Answer 3

-Not conscious recollection of memory
- Motor skills

Question 4

What are the 3 stages of memory storage?

Answer 4

1. Short term sensory store (STSS)
2. Short term memory (STM)
3. Long term memory (LTM)

Question 5

What stage of memory storage does sensory register belong in and what is it?

Answer 5

• Short Term Sensory Store
• Pattern matching

Question 6

How long is information kept in short term sensory storage?

Answer 6

less than a second

Question 7

How much information can be in the short term sensory store?

Answer 7

Limitless capacity

Question 8

What determines which items move from the short term sensory store to the short term memory?

Answer 8

Attention

Question 9

Where does “working memory” belong and what is it?

Answer 9

• Belongs in Short term memory
• It is the storage system for info from STSS or LTM, the effortful, conscious processing and inegration

Question 10

How long can information stay in the short term memory?

Answer 10

30-60 sec unless rehearsed

Question 11

What is the capacity of the short term memory?

Answer 11

• Span of 7+/- items

Question 12

Info from STSS is stored in STM for?

Answer 12

Processing

Question 13

Info from the LTM is retrieved and joins STSS in the short term memory to?

Answer 13

Create an action plan

Question 14

What items are stored in the long term memory?

Answer 14

Practiced items

Question 15

What is the capacity and duration of the LTM?

Answer 15

Limitless capacity and duration

Question 16

Implicit memory belongs where and what is it?

Answer 16

-LTM
- It is being able to do something without conscious thought (skills, tasks, habits)

Question 17

Explicit memory belongs where and what is it?

Answer 17

-LTM
- It is episodic (events) and semantic (recall facts & meaning)

Question 18

What are the 3 stages of long term memory?

Answer 18

Encoding
Storage
Retrieval

Question 19

What stage of LTM transfers info accurately into LTM?

Answer 19

Encoding/consolidating

Question 20

How does the LTM accurately retrieve information?

Answer 20

-Recall info from different long term storage sites
- Most accurate when retrieved in same context it was created

Question 21

For an individual to learn or re-learn any given task what needs to exist?

Answer 21

Plasticity