memory terms Flashcards
What is encoding?
Changing information into a form so it can be held in the brain
What is visual encoding?
Changing information by how it looks so it can be stored.
What is aucoustic encoding?
Changing information by how it sounds so it can be stored
What is semantic encoding?
Changing information by its meaning so it can be stored
What is tactile encoding?
Memory of what things feel like to touch.
What is olfactory encoding?
Memory for smell
What is storage?
Holding information in memory so that it can be retrieved later
What is retrieval?
Locating and bringing back information into mind
What are the 3 types of retrieval?
Recognition-Identifying from option
Cued recall-Locating information with a clue
Free recall-Without cues
What is episodic memory?
Memory from events in your life
What is semantic memory?
Memory of what things mean (general knowledge)
What is procedural memory?
Memory on how to do things
What are the 3 memory stores in the MSM
different coding,capacity and duration
What is declarative memory?
Episodic and semantic
What is non declarative memory?
Procedural
What does information move through?
Information moves through attention and verbal recall
What is Sensory memory?
Very short duration,large capacity
Attention transfers,information to STM
What is STM?
Limited duration (30 seconds) and capacity (5-9 items),acoustic coding
What is role of rehearsal?
Rehearsal keeps information in STM
Repeat rehearsal transfers STM into LTM
What is LTM?
Semantic coding,unlimited capacity and stored up to a lifetime
What is the primacy effect?
Words at the beginning are more remembered (rehearsed, so in LTM)
What is the recencey effect?
Words at the end are more remembered (heard recently, so in STM)
