Memory Flashcards
What is memory?
Encoding storage retrieval
What does encoding means?
It means putting in memory codes
What are the memory codes?
- Visual Code
- Acoustic Code
- Kinesthetic code
What is a visual code?
Representative stimuli as pictures (like remember faces)
What is the acoustic code?
Representative information as sequences of sounds
What is the kinesthetic code?
Means encoding stimuli by movement (like american sign language
What means storage?
Keeping in
What is episodic memory?
It’s when we say “I remember when…”
What is procedural memory?
When we say “How to…”
What is the sementic memory?
Is when we remember saying “I know that…”
What means retrieval?
It means pulling out
What means recall?
When you remember something without any help, without retrieval
What is recognition?
It means remembering something with retrieval cues. Like a multiply choice test that the options help you to get to your answer
What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
Retrieval memory to help you remeber
What are the characteristics of short-term memory?
Duration: less than 20 seconds
Working memory: manipulates whats is retenido (held) by short-term memory.
Works with maintenance rehearsal
Kinesthetic codes: dominate short- term memory
Acoustic codes: dominates fro hearing
Has a capacity of 3-9 chunks
