Storing Memories

Question 1

Sensory Memory

Answer 1

immediate, very brief recording of sensory information before it is processed into short-term, working, or long-term memory

Question 2

Short-Term Memory

Answer 2

where information is stored for a short period of time before put in long term memory or forgotten

Question 3

Long-Term Memory

Answer 3

where our information and skills go for later use and remembrance

Question 4

Maintenance Rehearsal

Answer 4

process of repeating information to remember it (can strengthen short-term memory)

Question 5

Elaborative Rehearsal

Answer 5

making conditions and associations with learning for deeper processing

Question 6

Autobiographical Memory (HSAM

Answer 6

can remember everything, but cannot forget anything (only related to episodic memories)

Question 7

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 7

inability to retrieve memories from past

Question 8

Anterograde Amnesia

Answer 8

inability to form new long-term explicit memories

Question 9

Alzheimer’s Disease

Answer 9

your brain deteriorates at an abnormally fast rate and makes you start to lose memory

Question 10

Infantile Amnesia

Answer 10

implicit memories from infancy are retained but most people don’t remember explicit memories till around age 3