Module 11 Flashcards
Refers to how you TRANSFORM a physical, sensory input into a kind of representation that can be placed into memory.
ENCODING
refers to how you RETAIN encoded information in memory.
STORAGE
Refers to how you GAIN ACCESS to information stored in memory.
RETRIEVAL
Forms of encoding:
- Short-term storage
- Long-term storage
Reflecting on our own memory processess with a view to improving our memory.
METAMEMORY STRATEGIES
One component of metamemory strategies.
- METACOGNITION
Our ability to think about and control our own processess of thought and ways of enhancing our thinking.
METACOGNITION
One technique that people use for keeping information active, the repeated recitation of an item.
REHEARSAL
The effects of such rehearsal are termed ..
PRACTICE EFFECTS
Rehearsal may be ____ in which case it is usually aloud and obvious to anyone watching.
OVERT
Rehearsal may be ____ in which case it is silent and hidden.
COVERT
Individual somehow elaborates the items to be remembered. Such rehearsal makes the items either more meaningfully integrated into what the person already knows or more meaningfully connected to one another and therefore memorable.
ELABORATIVE REHEARSAL
Individual simply repetitiously rehearses the items to be repeated.
MAINTENANCE REHEARSAL
Learning in which various sessions are spaced over time.
DISTRIBUTED PRACTICE
Learning in which sessions are crammed together in a very short space of time.
MASSED PRACTICE
This effect on long-term recall, explains that the spacing should ideally be distributed over months, rather than days or weeks.
SPACING EFFECT
Specific techniques to help you memorize lists of words.
MNEMONIC DEVICES
Different options for retrieving memories.
RETRIEVAL FROM SHORT-TERM MEMORY
Simultaneous handling of multiple operations.
PARALLEL PROCESSING
Refers to operations being done one after another.
SERIAL PROCESSING
Implies that the participant always checks the test digit againts all digits in the possitive set, even if a match were found partway through the list .
EXHAUSTIVE SERIAL PROCESSING
Implies that the participant would check the test digit against only those digits needed to make a response.
SELF-TERMINATING SERIAL PROCESSING
Presence of information stored in long-term memory.
AVAILABILITY
The degree to which we can gain access to tge available information. Memory performance depends on the accessibility of the information to be remembered.
ACCESSIBILITY
