Memory Flashcards
0
Q
Storage
A
Keeping the information
1
Q
Encoding
A
Changing the information in order to store the information
2
Q
Retrieval
A
Bringing the information back
3
Q
STM
A
Short term memory
4
Q
LTM
A
Long term memory
5
Q
Duration
A
How long you can keep a memory in a particular store
6
Q
Capacity
A
How much you can store
7
Q
Chunking
A
Grouping words or numbers together to improve the capacity of STM
8
Q
Acoustic
A
To do with sound (STM)
9
Q
Semantic
A
With the same meanings (LTM)
10
Q
Visual
A
The way things look (STM)
11
Q
Sensory store
A
Information from senses
12
Q
Attention
A
Pay attention for the information to move from the sensory store to STM
13
Q
Decay
A
When you don’t rehearse it memory is lost or forgotten
14
Q
Displacement
A
When information is pushed out because of limited capacity
