Memory Flashcards
What are the four types of memories?
- Sensory memory (seconds)
- Short-term memory (STM) (minutes)
- Mezzanine memory (hours/days)
- Long-Term memory (LTM) (lifetime)
How are short term memories stored?
The things that you’re remembering moment to moment, are in the electrical activity in your head. Neuron Firing.
How are long term memories stored?
Stored in the growth and connections between neurons in your head. Synapse Growth.
Memory is the process by which?
Information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
Short-term memory is also referred to as?
Working memory. What you’re working on remembering in the moment.
Without _______, information is lost from short-term memory.
rehearsel
What is long term memory?
Repository for all our knowledge and who we are. • Slow access - Relative to STM • Slowly created - rehearsal • Slow decay - if any • Huge or unlimited capacity
What are the two type of Explicit LTM?
- Episodic: serial memory of events. May be hard to recall out of order.
- Semantic/Declarative: Structured memory of facts, concepts, skills. Links and Associations.
Human memories are formed…?
By piercing together elements according to our understanding of the world, context and meaning.
Long-term memory is heavily influenced by…?
Context and Rehearsel
If you remember what you had for breakfast, this is what type of memory?
Mezzanine memory
Episodic Memory
Serial memories of events and stories. It may be hard to recall out of order. eg.) Poems
Semantic/Declarative Memory
Individual facts or bits of knowledge. eg.) Who’s the president of United States.
Which of these is predominantly stored by physical growth of neurons?
a. Short-term memory
b. Mezzanine memory
c. Long-term memory
c. Long-term memory
Which of the following is predominantly store electrically? (ionically)?
a. Short-term memory
b. Mezzanine memory
c. Long-term memory
a. Short-term memory
