Memory Flashcards
What types of encoding is used in STM?
Acoustic
Visually
What types of encoding is used for LTM?
Semantic
What is the meaning of acoustic encoding?
Encoding through hearing it
What is visual encoding?
Encoding though site
What is semantic encoding
Encoding through meaning
What types of retrieval are there?
Recognition,
Cued recall,
Free recall
What is encoding?
The information must be translated into a form so that is can be held in your brain.
What is storage?
The information is kept in your brain for a period of time - possibly a lifetime.
What is retrieval?
The process of being able to access information that has been stored in your brain and being able to use it.
How could you store a film?
Visually
How could you store a song?
Acoustically
How could you store using a fraction?
Semantically
How could you store your cat’s fur?
Tactile - touch
How could you store fish and chips?
Taste and olfactory
What types of things would you remember in your LTM?
Names, personality’s of others, passwords
What types of things would you remember in your STM?
Conversations, school work, what you had for lunch
What is free recall?
Retrieval without cues.
Recognition?
E.G - seeing someone and being able to identify who they are.
What is cued recall?
You try and remember a piece of information and someone gives you a clue or a cue.
What is procedural memory?
A long-term memory store for our knowledge of how to do things.
What is episodic memory?
A long-term memory store for personal events.
Which memory is unconscious?
Procedural memory.
What memory is conscious?
Episodic,
Semantic
What is the duration of the sensory register?
About half a second
What coding is in the sensory register?
It is raw unprocessed information?
What is the capacity for the sensory register?
High capacity?
What is the coding for STM?
Mainly acoustic
What is the duration for STM?
About 30 seconds
What is the capacity of STM?
Between 5 and 9 pieces of information
What is the coding for LTM?
Mainly semantic
What is the duration of LTM?
Up to a lifetime
What is the capacity of LTM?
Unlimited
What is the recency effect?
The words (example) that your hear at the end, so the most the recent thing you hear.
What is the primary effect?
The words (example) you hear first.
Why do people remember the last thing that is said?
It stays in their STM till they need to recall it.
Why do people remember the first words that are said to them?
They have more time to go over them and put them into their LTM.
Why is memory inaccurate?
People changed what they read, and when reconstructed it they missed out bits.
What are some social and cultural influences?
How they have grown up and there culture.
What are some social and cultural influences?
(Boat instead of canoe, fishing instead of hunting seals.
What is effort after meaning?
The participants putting effort in to fill in the gaps when recalling to make the story to make sense.
