STM pt 1

Question 1

What is memory?

Answer 1

memory is the set of processes involved in retaining and using info about stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills after the original info is no longer present

Question 2

What is the process of memory?

Answer 2

encoding, storage, retrieval

Question 3

What is the timescale of memory?

Answer 3

seconds to years

Question 4

what types of information can memory store?

Answer 4

episodic, semantic, procedural, verbal, visual

Question 5

what is sensory memory?

Answer 5

very short lived buffer for all info that hits our sensory receptors

holds large amount of info for short period of time

Question 6

visual sensory memory is what?

Answer 6

iconic memory

Question 7

auditory sensory memory is what?

Answer 7

echoic memory

Question 8

iconic memory characteristics?

Answer 8

persistence of vison

retention of the perception of light
ex trail of sparklers

Question 9

Echoic memory characteristics?

Answer 9

persistence of sound

helps us integrate across a spoken word