psych 7.1 Flashcards
Amnesia
a profound loss of at least one form of memory
anterograde amnesia
the inability to form new memories for events occurring after a brain injury
attention
selects which information will be passed on to STM (short term memory)
central executive
the control centre of working memory; it coordinates attention and the exchange of information among the three storage components
chunking
organizing smaller units of info it larger, more meaningful units
consolidation
control process
shift info from one memory store to another
cross-cortical storage
a phenomenon in which long-term declarative memories are distributed throughout the cortex of the brain, rather than being localized in one region
declarative (explicit) memory
memories that we are consciously aware of and that can be verbalized, including facts about the world and one’s own personal experiences
echoic memory
the auditory form of sensory memory
encoding
the process of storing info in the LTM system
episodic buffer
a storage component of working memory that combines the images and sounds from the other two components into coherent, story-like episodes
episodic memory
feature binding
the process of combining visual features into a single unit
iconic memory