Memory Flashcards
Information processing model
Brain is like computer. Receive input, process it, make decision
Sensory memory
First interact w information in environment. Temporary memory.
Iconic memory: what we see
Echoic memory: what we hear
Working memory
- 7+-2 things that can be remembered at a time.
Long term memory
Explicit: facts or events.
Implicit: how to ride a bike
Explicit memory
Facts events.
Semantic: having to do with words. Meaning of worlds
Episodic memory: memory of events
Implicit memory
Procedural: riding a bike
Priming
Rote rehearsal
Repeating something to remember it. Not effective. Doesn’t require you to process the info
Chunking
Group info to better remember it
Mnemonic devices
Imagery. Pegwords. Method of loci. Connecting previous info to remember new info. Acronym
Self referencing
Preparing to teach
Spacing
Break up study sessions
Retrieval cues
Priming- even if we’re unaware of them
Context- having a variety of cues (multiple locations) will help
State- if you’re happy you’re more likely to retrieve happy thoughts
Retrieval
Free recall
Cued recall
Recognition
Free recall
Primacy effect
Recency effect
Middle is hard to remember
Cued recall
Basically getting clues until you recall it
Recognition
Not just cued, you get the whole word and you have to recognize it
Memory reconstruction
False information-
Misleading info
Source monitoring: being able to differentiate sources of memories
Flashbulb memories
Highly emotional memories, can be reconstructions
Long term potentiation
When neurons become more interconnected. We get smarter. Synapses are strengthened
Decay
Don’t use memory— lose it
Rate of forgetting. Most happens the first few days/years
Savings
Faster rate of relearning because we slightly remember
Interference
Retroactive: new over rides old
Proactive: old over rides new
Stable memories
Implicit (riding bike)
Recognition
Improving memories
Semantic memory gets better with age
