memory

Question 1

what is memory?

Answer 1

the mental function of retaining information about stimuli, events, images and ideas

Question 2

what is capacity?

Answer 2

how much your storage system can hold

Question 3

what is retrieval?

Answer 3

the process of accessing and recalling our memory

Question 4

what is duration?

Answer 4

how long a memory can last for before it’s forgotten

Question 5

what are retrieval cues?

Answer 5

events or situations that cause you to remember a (long term) memory

Question 6

what is maintenance rehearsal?

Answer 6

the process of repeating information to yourself

Question 7

what happens to short term memories when you forget something?

Answer 7

short term memories will decay because they hadn’t been rehearsed, therefore it disappears

Question 8

what happens to long term memories when you forget something?

Answer 8

decay occurs

Question 9

how long does it take for information to decay in your short term memory?

Answer 9

20 to 30 seconds

Question 10

how many items of information does your short term memory hold before it reaches full capacity?

Answer 10

5 - 9 items

Question 11

how is information coded in your short term memory?

Answer 11

acoustically

Question 12

how is information coded in your long term memory?

Answer 12

semantically

Question 13

what are the stages of memory?

Answer 13

1) encoding
2) storage
3) retrieval

Question 14

what is encoding?

Answer 14

how we put information into our memory through different ways

Question 15

what is storage?

Answer 15

how we keep information in our memory, through short and long term memory stores

Question 16

what is information processing?

Answer 16

• the assumption that information is processed in the brain linearly and logically
• information is input through the five senses and encoded into the brain when remembered
• the information is then stored and can be retried when something needs to be remembered

Question 17

what is the computer analogy?

Answer 17

• an analogy describing the brain like a storage system that receives information from the environment, process it and proves and output
• the brain receive masses of information from the five senses all the time and pays attention to a small amount of this information
• the brain is seen as a hardrive of the computer and emotions and mind the software

Question 18

what is top down processing?

Answer 18

• using models, ideas, and expectations to interpret sensory information
• e.g the ability to avoid dangerous situations

Question 19

what is bottom up processing?

Answer 19

taking sensory information and then assembling and integrating it

• e.g stubbing your toe

Question 20

what is recall?

Answer 20

the act of retrieving information or events from the past