MEMORY Flashcards
The means which we retain and draw on information from
our past experiences to use in the present.
Refers to a dynamic mechanism associated with storing,
retaining and retrieving information about past
experience.
Memory
Three Common Operations of Memory:
- Encoding
- storage
- retrieval
Task used for measuring memory.
Two major categories:
- Recall versus Recognition memory
- Implicit versus Explicit memory
you produce a fact, a word, or
other item from memory.
Recall
select or identify an item as being
one that you have been exposed
to previously.
Recognition
which is the number of trials it
takes to learn once again items
that were learned in the past.
It has also been referred
to as savings and can be observed
in adults, children, and animals
Relearning
you respond to stimuli presented
to you and decide whether you have
seen them before or not.
Recognition - memory task
use information from memory but
are not consciously aware that
we are doing so
Implicit
Each of the tasks previously
discussed involves explicit
memory.
participants engage in conscious
recollection.
Explicit
Two Tasks involve Implicit memory:
Priming task
Task involving procedural knowledge
is the facilitation of your ability to utilize
missing information.
Priming
subjects use an
L-shaped stylus to track a small, rotating
disk on a spinning platform.
Rotary Pursuit
Task
subjects trace the outline of a shape they can only see in a mirror.
Mirror tracing task
He proposed a model of memory distinguishing two
structures of memory
William James
They proposed an alternative model that conceptualized memory in terms of three memory stores
Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin
