Memory Flashcards
3 stages of memory
Encoding
Storage
Recall of events
ESR
3 positions on the serial position curve
Primacy effect
Aymptote
Recency effect
Most recalled words occur in what stage
Recency effect
what two memory systems are used in encoding sensory information
Echoic memory (phonological)
Iconic Memory (visual)
In echoic memory (phonological) is the recency effect present
yes
in iconic memory, is the recency effect present
No
Long term storage consists of what 3 types
Episodic
Semantic
Procedural
ESP
Describe episodic memory (Long term)
what part of the brain does it use
Autobiographical
All of cortex
Describe Semantic memory (long term)
What part of the brain does it use
General knowledge
All of cortex
Describe Procedural memory (long term)
What part of the brain does it use (2)
Skill based knowledge
Basal Ganglia // Cerebellum
Synaesthesia involves what
Crossing of sensory modalities
See something and tastes it
Hyperthymesia involves what
High superior autobiographical memory
