Processes of memory.

Question 1

What is encoding?

Answer 1

Changing information so it can be held in the brain

Question 2

What is visual encoding?

Answer 2

Changing information by how it looks

Question 3

Acoustic encoding

Answer 3

Encoding via sound

Question 4

Semantic encoding

Answer 4

Encoding via meaning

Question 5

Other encoding

Answer 5

Tactile encoding - memory of what things are like to touch

Olfactory encoding - Memory for smell

Question 6

Storage

Answer 6

Holding memories so they can be retrieved later.

Question 7

Retrieval

Answer 7

Locating and bringing back information into STM

Question 8

Types of retrieval

Answer 8

Recognition - identifying from options
Cued Recall - Locating information with a clue
Free recall - without clues.

Question 9

Baddeley’s study

Answer 9

Aim - to see whether there was a difference in using the STM or LTM

Method - Participants learnt words similar or dissimilar sounding. They immediately recall the info.

Results - Similar sounding words were badly recalled in
STM, words with similar meanings were badly encoded in LTM.

Conclusion - This shows the STM is encoded acoustically and the LTM is semantically.

Question 10

Types of LTM

Answer 10

Episodic memory - Memory from events in your life

Semantic memory - Memory in what things mean

Procedural memory - Memory of how we do things.

Declarative and non-declarative - Declarative is episodic and semantic and non-declarative is procedural