Memory Flashcards
Sensory Memory
Reliable, but goes away quickly
Ionic Memory
Picture Memory
Echoic Memory
Auditory Memory
Working Memory
The ability to keep data stored and be able to manipulate it
Long Term Memory
Memories stored permanently
Recall
Having to produce the knowledge
Recognition
Remembering that you know it
Retrieval
Remembering what you ALREADY know
Encoding
Recognizing the information is important
Implicit Memory
Non-Declarative and are things we do procedurally once we know how to do it (ex. writing, reading)
Explicit Memory
Declarative Memory; Knowledge that you can declare
Eidetic Memory
Photographic Memory
Episodic Memory
Events that have happened over the course of your life
Mnemonic Devices
A device that helps you remember things. (Ex. PEMDAS)
Hippocampus & Frontal Lobes
Play a central role in forming explicit memory
Cerebellum & Basal Ganglia
Play a central role in forming implicit memory
Infantile Amnesia
Not remembering events that happened when we were babies, because we weren’t yet capable of forming those memories
Flashbulb Memory
A stressful/strong event that is remembered vividly because of the impact. (Ex. Where you were when 9/11 occurred)
How do we retrieve memories?
With retrieval clues (ex. multiple choice questions help you remember the material)
What is context-dependence?
Doing something in a specific setting and it causes you to remember it more effectively.
Ex. Studying in the same setting as a test you are going to take will help you retrieve the information more effectively.
Serial Position Effect: Primacy Effect
When you retrieve the first things on the list
Serial Position Effect: Recency Effect
When you can retrieve the last things
Retrograde Amnesia
Can’t remember the past
Anterograde
Can’t form new memories
Elizabeth Loftus & the misinformation effect
Suggestibility leading to false statements
Imagination Inflation
Seeing and imagining activate the same areas
Repression
Making yourself forget something
