Taking In And Storing Information

Question 1

What is sensory information?

Answer 1

The information you see and hear which you are able to hold onto for a split second

Question 2

What is short term memory

Answer 2

what is held in your mind at that exact moment of thinking

Question 3

What is the process of maintainable rehearsal and chunking?

Answer 3

Maintainable rehearsal is information that you hold for More than a few seconds usually by repeating.

Chucking is when you limit information to a capacity which helps you hold more information.

Question 4

What is primary regency?

Answer 4

Primary regency is how we are able to remember information at the beginning and at the end of a list.

Question 5

Explain the 4 types of long term memory:

Answer 5

1. Semantic memory
   • our knowledge of language, words and meaning.
2. Episodic memory
   • our knowledge and recall of our own life
3. Declarative
   • involves both episodic and semantic memory
4. Procedural memory
   • does not require conscience recollection of past experiences.

Question 6

Explain the 3 memory processes?

Encoding, storage, and retrieval

Answer 6

Encoding- basically uses your senses like hearing, sight, temperature taste

Storage- is based on how much effort is out into memorization

Retrieval- when information is brought to mind from storage.