Module 4 WORKING MEMORY Flashcards
is the processes involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills after the original information is no longer present.
Memory
is a condition in which a person is unable to create new memories after an amnesia-inducing event.
Anterograde
is a loss of memory-access to events that occurred or information that was learned in the past. It is caused by an injury or the onset of a disease.
Retrograde
is devoted to processing of names, dates, places, facts, events, and so forth. These are entities that are thought of as being encoded symbolically and that thus can be described with language. In terms of function, declarative memory is specialized for fast processing and learning.
Declarative/Explicit
is an initial stage that holds all incoming information for seconds or fractions of a
second.
Sensory memory
holds 5–7 items for about 15–30 seconds.
Short term memory (STM)
can hold a large amount of information for years or even decades.
Long term memory (LTM)
model proposed that memory can be understood as a sequence of discrete steps, in which information is transferred from one storage area to another. It is only a fraction of the information in short-term memory passes on to long-term memory
The Atkinson-Shiffrin Theory
is also involved when a person is asked to recollect life events,
Recall
A memory organizational strategy in which several small units are combined into larger units.It is knowledge made up
of smaller pieces of information.
CHUNKING
refers to the way information is represented
Determining how a stimulus is represented by the firing of neurons
Coding
involves representing items in STM based on their sound.
Auditory coding
is representing items in terms of
their meaning.
Semantic coding
involves representing items visually, as would occur when remembering the details of a floor plan or the layout of streets on a map
visual coding
