Memory

Question 1

What is sensory memory?

Answer 1

They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste

Question 2

How do the sensory memory gather information?

Answer 2

Sensory memory gathers information via senses through transduction. Transduction consists of receptor cell activity that alters memories into a form of information that the brain can process.

Question 3

Is sensory memory conscious or unconscious and how long do they last?

Answer 3

Unconscious, very short time

Question 4

Key function of sensory memory

Answer 4

It acts as a filter, by focusing on what’s important, and forgetting what is unnecessary.

Question 5

What is working memory?

Answer 5

A memory that stores information during the completion of cognitive tasks, such as comprehension, problem solving, reasoning, and learning.

Question 6

What does the working memory do?

Answer 6

• selection of information
• method of processing
• deciding whether to transfer it to long term memory or forget it

Question 7

What are the parts of working memory?

Answer 7

Auditory loop - where auditory information is processed
visual-spatial check pad- where visual information is processed

Question 8

What are the categories of long term memory

Answer 8

Explicit memory
Implicit memory

Question 9

What is explicit memory?

Answer 9

Semantic (words)
Episodic (events)

Question 10

What is implicit memory?

Answer 10

Procedural memory - how to ride a bike
Priming - previous experience influence your interpretation)

Question 11

What type of information is part of long term memory?

Answer 11

declaration (semantic and episodic)
procedural (how to do something)
imagery ( mental images)