Memory Flashcards
1
Q
Encoding
A
Changing information into a different form to help to memorise it better.
2
Q
What are the three types of encoding?
Or the way info enters the brain
A
Visual, acoustic and semantic.
3
Q
Storage
A
Retention of info in our memory, temporarily or permanently.
4
Q
Retrieval
A
The ability to recover info from our memory stores,
5
Q
What are the two types of retrieval?
A
Recall- Recovering and reproducing information
Recognition- Identifying something as being familiar to you
6
Q
What are the two types of memory?
What are the differences in capacity, duration and encoding between them?
A
Short term and long term.
STM: 5-9 things, 30 seconds or less, acoustically.
LTM: Unknown, lifetime beyond 2/3 years old, semantically.
