Memory

Question 1

Input

Answer 1

Sensory information we receive from our environment.

Question 2

Storage

Answer 2

The retention of information in our memory system.

Question 3

Encoding

Answer 3

Turning sensory information into a form that can be used and stored by the brain.

Question 4

Acoustic Encoding

Answer 4

The process of storing sound in our memory system.

Question 5

Visual Encoding

Answer 5

The process of storing something that has been seen in our memory system.

Question 6

Semantic Encoding

Answer 6

The process of storing the meaning of information in our memory system, rather than the sound of a word.

Question 7

Output

Answer 7

The information we recall, output can refer to a behavioural response.

Question 8

Retrieval

Answer 8

The recall of stored memories.

Question 9

Short - Term Memory (STM)

Answer 9

Our initial memory store that is temporary and limited.

Question 10

Long-Term Memory (LTM)

Answer 10

A memory store that holds potentially limitless amounts of information for up to a lifetime.

Question 11

Duration

Answer 11

The length of time information can be stored in STM and LTM.

Question 12

Capacity

Answer 12

The amount of information that can be stored in STM and LTM.

Question 13

Rehearse

Answer 13

When we repeat information over and over again to make it stick.

Question 14

Displacement

Answer 14

When the STM becomes full and new information pushes out older information.

Question 15

Interference

Answer 15

When new information overwrites older information

Question 16

Amnesia

Answer 16

Memory loss, often through accident, disease or injury.

Question 17

Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 17

A memory condition that means new long-term memories cannot be made

Question 18

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 18

A memory condition that affects recall of memories prior to an injury to the brain.

Question 19

Schema

Answer 19

A packet of knowledge about an event, person or place that influences how we perceive and remember.

Question 20

Active Reconstruction

Answer 20

Memory is not an exact copy of what we experienced, but an interpretation or reconstruction of events that are influences by our schema when we remember them again.

Question 21

Omission

Answer 21

When we leave out unfamiliar, irrelevant or unpleasant details when remembering something.

Question 22

Transformation

Answer 22

When details are changed to make them more familiar and rational.

Question 23

Familiarisation

Answer 23

When unfamiliar details are changes to align with our

own schema.

Question 24

Rationalisation

Answer 24

When we add details into our recall to give a reason for something that may have not originally fitted with the schema

Question 25

Sensory register

Answer 25

Our immediate memory of sensory information

Question 26

Primary

Answer 26

The tendency to recall words at the beginning of a list when asked to remember it.

Question 27

Recency

Answer 27

The tendency to recall words at the end of a list when asked to remember it.

Question 28

Serial Reproduction

Answer 28

A technique where participants retell something to another participant to form a chain.

Question 29

Repeated Reproduction

Answer 29

A technique where participants are asked to recall something again and again.

Question 30

Reductionism

Answer 30

The theory of explaining something according to its basic constituent parts

Question 31

Holism

Answer 31

The theory of explaining something as a whole.