Test #2 Flashcards
Memory
information processing system that encodes, stores, and retrieves info
Encoding steps
- Select stimulus
- Identify features
- Label
Retrieval steps
- Locating
- Recovering
Elaboration
Attaching personal meaning to new info
3 memory stages (length, order)
- Sensory - 1/4 second, determines relevant processing
- Working - 20 seconds, temp for new info while newer acquired.
- Long-Term - unlimited, stored in a meaningful way
Sensory registers
Sensory info stored in same way experienced.
- Iconic - Visual
- Echoic - Hearing
- Tactile - Touch
- Gustatory - Taste
- Olifactory - Smell
Rehearsal
Brain attempt to retain in working memory. Maintenance and elaborative types. Passive and active respectively.
Recall
Like essay writing, reproducing previously presented info
Recognition
Identifying stimuli previously presented
Procedural memory
LTM
Stores “how things are done” memories
Declarative memory
LTM
Stores facts, impressions, events.
Types of Declarative memory
Episodic - Personal experiences
Semantic - Facts, general knowledge
Method of Loci
Mnemonic device
Remembering through memory built into a familiar place
7 sins of memory
Transcience - Time fading
Absent-Mindedness - Shift in attention
Blocking - “tip of tongue” unable to recall stored information
Misattribution - “filling in blanks”, Assimilating wrong place, time.
Bias - Expectancy (see what want), self-consistency (see as we see ourselves)
Persistence - Something cycles over and over
