Week 5 memory Flashcards
Sensation
Detecting physical stimuli ( No interpretation)
Perception
Processing and interpretation of that information
What forms experience
Sensation and perception
Sensory receptors
are specialized cells in the sense organs (vision, touch, smell, hearing, taste)
-They receive stimulation and pass that information to the brain in the form of neural impulses
what are limits of sensory perception?
Sensory input is messy and incomplete, the world is complicated (we cannot perceive everything) so the brain must actively construct perceptions that go beyond the input.
Multistore Memoery Model
1.Sensory memory
2.Short term memory
3. Long term memory
Sensory
brief retention of stimulus in senses, Neural impulse > sensory
Short term memory
limited capacity (Miller’s Magic Number 7 ± 2) and duration (<20 sec), enhanced with rehearsal
Long term memory
Memory must be consolidated to be stored into LTM thought to be limitless in capacity and duration ; if encode/consolidate that info makes it into ltm
Retieval
Reconsolidation
Encoding
storing memories in your brain
Implicit/ Nondeclarative
Procedural knowledge
Learned associations
E.g., conditioning, priming
ex: Tying your shoes, nauseous when you walk in chickflia ( You dont do this knowingly)
Explicit/
Declarative
Semantic memory
Episodic memory
Semantic
Generic information can be thought of as sort of factual….like who is the president of the USA
Episodic
is memory for a particular time and place. What is the last song you heard before this class requires episodic memory Escaping the sun on the beach an episode
Serial Position effect
-The serial position effect refers to the phenomenon in which people tend to remember the first and last items in a list better than the items in the middle.
-The serial position effect demonstrates how memory retrieval is influenced by the order of information and the limitations of both short-term and long-term memory.
Elaboration
involves adding meaning, connections, or associations to the information you’re trying to remember.
Deep Elaboration:
The deeper you process the information (beyond just surface-level facts), the better you are at encoding it into long-term memory.
For instance, thinking about the significance of a concept, how it relates to what you already know, and generating examples helps deepen your understanding.
Visual Imagery
Creating mental images (visual imagery) can help with memory encoding, especially for abstract concepts or unfamiliar information
The method of loci
The method of loci is an ancient mnemonic technique where you associate the items you want to remember with specific locations in a familiar place (like your home or a familiar route).
