Memory Part 2 Flashcards
Unconscious encoding of incidental information such as space, time, and frequency of well-learned information
Automatic Processing
Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort
Effortful Processing
Conscious and effortful repetition of information that you are trying to either maintain in consciousness or to encode for storage
Rehearsal
Manipulation of information so that it can be stored
Rehearsal
Repeating information to prolong its presence in STM
Maintenance Rehearsal
Linking new information with existing memories and knowledge in LTM to help transfer
Elaboraborative Rehearsal
Tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better LT retention that mass studied or practices
Spacing Effect
Enhanced memory after retrieving rather than rereading information
Testing Effect
Items at the beginning and end of the list are to be more easily retained than those in the middle
Serial Position Effect
Remembering the first item the best
Primacy Effect
Remembering the last item the best
Recency Effect
Clear visual images like a photographic memory
Eidetic Memory
Don’t remember information presented because one was focuses on own performance
Next-in-Line Effect
More likely to remember different/ odd information
Von Restorff Effect
Use of imagery to process information into memory
Visual Encoding
Processing of information into memory per its sound
Acoustic Encoding
Processing of information into memory per its meaning
Semantic Encoding
Mental pictures and can be an important aid to effortful processing
Imagery
Memory Aids often use visual imagery (method of loci, acronyms)
Mnemonics
Memory technique of organizing material into familiar meaningful units
Chunking
An increast in a synapse’s firing potential following brief rapid stimulaiton
Long Term Potentiation
Believed to be the neural basis for learning and memory
Long Term Potentiation
Recall of skills, preferences, and dispositions
Implicit Memory (Procedural/Nondeclarative Memory)
Are processed by the cerebellum
Implicit Memory (Procedural/Nondeclarative Memory)
Memories of how to do something such as riding bike or tying your shoes
Procedural Memory
Houses procedural Memory
Cerebellum
Memories of facing including names, images, and events stored in the hippocampus
Explicit Memory (Declarative Memory)
The storied of our lives and experience that we can recall and tell someone
Episodic Memory
Impersonal memories that are not drawn from experience but from common knowledge: facts we learn over life
Semantic Memory
