Memory

Question 1

Encoding

Answer 1

Changing information into a different form to help to memorise it better.

Question 2

What are the three types of encoding?

Or the way info enters the brain

Answer 2

Visual, acoustic and semantic.

Question 3

Storage

Answer 3

Retention of info in our memory, temporarily or permanently.

Question 4

Retrieval

Answer 4

The ability to recover info from our memory stores,

Question 5

What are the two types of retrieval?

Answer 5

Recall- Recovering and reproducing information

Recognition- Identifying something as being familiar to you

Question 6

What are the two types of memory?

What are the differences in capacity, duration and encoding between them?

Answer 6

Short term and long term.
STM: 5-9 things, 30 seconds or less, acoustically.
LTM: Unknown, lifetime beyond 2/3 years old, semantically.