Memory

Question 1

What is memory?

Answer 1

It’s the continuance process of learning things over time through storage and retrieval of information and skills

Question 2

What is recall?

Answer 2

Remembering information that was unconsciously stored
“Fill in the blanks”

Question 3

What is recognition?

Answer 3

The ability to recognize past events

Question 4

What is relearning?

Answer 4

Retrieving information that has previously been stored

Question 5

What is encoding?

Answer 5

when info enters our brain

Question 6

What is storage?

Answer 6

when the info that was encoded is held

Question 7

What is retrieval?

Answer 7

reactivating the information that was stored and producing it in a form similar to encoding

Question 8

What is sensory memory?

Answer 8

the immediate recording of our sens before it is processed into our short or long term memory

Question 9

Short-term memory

Answer 9

• Our short-term memory is a function in our working memory
• the type of memory that holds information that happens at this very moment

Question 10

Explicit and Implicit

Answer 10

• Explicit: the things that we can remember (effortful processing)
• Implicit: things that we aren’t completely aware of (automatic processing)
  1. Procedural: knowledge that is
  well practiced
  2. Conditionned association: our
  senses like smell
  3. space: something that can be
  visual
  4. Time: sequence of events
  5. Frequency: things you don’t
  think about it, but
  you acknowledge

Question 11

Capacity of our short-term memory

Answer 11

Chunking; organizing information into category
Mnemonics: associating something to another
Hierarchy: categorizing information
Rehearsal: practicing and rereading
Deep semantic processing: questioning
yourself

Question 12

types of long-term memory

Answer 12

1. Procedural Memory: know-how
2. Declarative Memory: Knowing that
   - Semantic memory: general
   knowledge
   - Episodic memory: personal
   recollections
3. Flashbald Memory: something that happens once in a generation
4. State-dependent condition: the memories when we are drunk
   The way we recall info is easier when we are in different states of mind
5. Exocation: element that reminds us about something

Question 13

Atkinson-Shiffrin Model (1968)

Answer 13

stimulus are recorded by our senses and are held briefly in sensory memory until they are put into either our short-term or long-term memory