Memory Flashcards
Encoding
The process of transforming what we perceive, think, or feel into a memory
Who showed evidence of levels of processing
Craik and Tulving 1975
Mnemonics
Strategies for remembering a large amount of information usually involving imaging events occurring on a journey or with some other set of memorized cues
Sensory Store
Stores sensory information or the sensory information you experienced
Sensory memory
Accurately holds perceptual information for a very brief amount of time
Short term memory
Limited duration
20 secs or (15-30 secs)
About 7±2 chunks of informations
Long term memory
Memory that activates overtime without conscious activation
Events in your life, facts about the world, motor skills, etc
“Long term” sometimes means a few minutes doesn’t have to be years
Can last indefinitely
Can be retrieved and brought into working memory
Explicit memory
Knowing “what”
Expressed verbally
Conscious awareness
Episodic
Specific time, place
Personally experienced
Prospective memory: future events
Semantic
Facts
General knowledge
Implicit memory
Knowing “how”
Expressed behaviorally
Awareness not necessary
Procedural
Skills
“How to do something”
Retrograde Amnesia
Can’t remember events prior to brain damage
Anterograde Amnesia
Can’t remember events after brain damage
Patience KC
Severe Retrograde and Anterograde amnesia
Old Semantic memories intact but not episodic
