Module 6 Flashcards
What is memory?
Encode, store, and retrieve information over a period of time.
What is encoding?
The input of information into the memory system. It receives sensory info from the environment and our brains label and code it.
What is Automatic Processing?
Encoding of details like time, space, frequency, and meaning of words, which is done without conscious awareness.
What is effortful processing?
What is semantic encoding?
Mentally processing the memory of info encoding words and their meanings.
What is visual encoding?
The encoding of images based on info in visual characteristics and appearance. The visual details of an item or concept are emphasized.
What are high imagery words?
They are words that allow your head to create images of the object or concept in your head and are encoded visually and semantically
ex. car, dog, book
What are low imagery words?
Words that do not allow the brain to create mental images easily.
ex. level, truth, value
What is acoustic encoding?
The encoding of sound. The sounds of words are encoded.
What is self reference effect?
Having better memory for info that relates to one self than to material that doesn’t personally relate as much.
What is the information processing theory?
Compares the human brain to computer that the brain has a set sequence.
Input-Process info- Delivers output
What is sensory memory?
Is responsible for temporarily holding information that is received through the five senses.
It is the initial stage of memory that lasts fr a very short period f time.
What is echoic memory?
Auditory sensory memory. (lasts for 4 seconds)
What is iconic memory?
Visual sensory memory
What is short term memory?
-Processes incoming sensory memory
-Holds information that is currently in use.
-Has a limited capacity
-Sometimes connects sensory info to a memory that is stored in long term memory.
What is active rehearsal?
-Attending to info to move it from short to long term memory
-If it rehearsed enough it can be moved to long term memory
What is elaborating rehearsal
Linking new information to already known info.
What is consolidation?
The neural changes that occur after rehearsal to move a memory into long term memory?
What is memory trace decay?
When the physical memory fade, which affects short term memory
What is interface?
Memory obstruction caused by competing information.
what is long term memory?
The continuous storage of memory. It holds info that is not immediately needed but needs to be remembered for long periods of time.
