Memory #2 Flashcards
What is Long-term memory? What are its capacity, duration and function?
Capacity: Enormous (unlimited)
Duration: Very long (essentially permanent)
Function: Tie together past and present, prior experience to guide our behavior
What is the serial position effect?
15 word list - People remember the first few words and last few words the best (U curve)
What is recency?
Improved performance for last few words - write last few items down first and then go back to the beginning words
Separation of long and short term memory - last few words still in short term memory
What is primacy?
Improved performance for first few words - long term memory
Process called encoding - what it means and how it is related to what you know / other words in list
What are the different kinds of long-term memory?
Explicit memory: Consciously remembering
Implicit memory: Happens outside of awareness
Examples of explicit memory - Episodic
Episodic memory: Memory for individual episodes, specific place and time; example - where were you on your 18th birthday?
Examples of explicit memory - Semantic
Semantic memory: Knowledge of the world, from multiple episodes “I know this”; For example, what is your mother’s first name? Can’t remember when and where
Examples of implicit memory - Procedural
Tie your shoes, juggle, play an instrument
Examples of implicit memory - Classical conditioning
Text anxiety, Pavlov’s dogs
Examples of implicit memory - Priming
Fill in blank to make words is influenced by what they read
What is a mnemonic?
Tricks to use to improve memory - encourage deep encoding (vivid mental image)
What is imagery?
Pato - pot - duck
What does it look like / sound like and assign it an image
What is the method of loci?
Think about space you know well, imagine objects you will encounter in order and imagine vivid interaction between each objects and the things you want to remember in your speech
What is the keyword method?
Weave a story to remember each word
