Memory Flashcards
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Memory is
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The capacity to acquire retain and recall knowledge and skills
2
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Different types of memory
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- Episodic
- semantic
- Procedural
3
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Episodic memory
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The ability to remember events from the past
4
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Semantic memory
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The ability to remember organized knowledge about language and about the world for
example, how many months in a year
5
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Procedural memory
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The ability to remember how to do things
6
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Three levels of memory
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- Sensory
- Short term
- long-term
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Sensory
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- Records information from the senses for a few seconds
-Enables you to hold information long enough to record what is necessary from the environment - allows you to select what you think should be retained from all sensory information that you are receiving
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Short term memory
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- hold information for 10 to 15 seconds
-If you continue to work within the information, it will either be disregarded or stored in long-term memory - Can store about seven separate, unorganized items
- Items are sorted in short term memory by sound mental picture or person meaning
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Long-term memory
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- Items that are important and have meaning to our stored in long-term memory
- can retain as much information as you want for as long as you want, but you cannot always recall everything at will
10
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Suggestions for improving the ability to recall information from long-term memory include…
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- store the information effectively
- use efficient methods of retrieving the information
- recall the information regularly
- organize information and related to other information