Memory Flashcards
Storage
Keeping the information
Encoding
Changing the information in order to store the information
Retrieval
Bringing the information back
STM
Short term memory
LTM
Long term memory
Duration
How long you can keep a memory in a particular store
Capacity
How much you can store
Chunking
Grouping words or numbers together to improve the capacity of STM
Acoustic
To do with sound (STM)
Semantic
With the same meanings (LTM)
Visual
The way things look (STM)
Sensory store
Information from senses
Attention
Pay attention for the information to move from the sensory store to STM
Decay
When you don’t rehearse it memory is lost or forgotten
Displacement
When information is pushed out because of limited capacity
Maintenance rehearsal
Keeps it in the STM
Elaborat rehearsal
Moves information into the LTM
Primacy and recovery effect
Remembering things at the start and end of a life because they are more likely to be recalled then the middle