Week 9 Memory ch6

Question 1

4 ways to encode

Answer 1

-elaborate
-organize
-visualize
-make it personal

Question 2

Who wanted to test how long memories lasted after encoding and how did he do it

Answer 2

Ebbinghaus, he taught himself random sequences of numbers, he inspired the forgetting curve memory declines after 20 minutes

Question 3

Storage

Answer 3

is about maintaining the info in memory overtime
-there are many different ways to forget information

Question 4

Sensory memories
iconic
echoic

Answer 4

is the first storage is the briefest
is visual and briefer
is auditory & longer

Question 5

Short term memory

Answer 5

( 20s)
-slightly longer but not by much
-stored sequentially
-unrehearsed info is lost

Question 6

serial position

Answer 6

the psychological tendency to remember the first and last items in a list better than those in the middle

Question 7

primacy effect
recency effect

Answer 7

first numbers
last numbers

Question 8

Working memory

Answer 8

It is how memory is pulled
-its a temporary storage
-but it retrieves memory from the the long term
-it focused attention and manipulates info

Question 9

Long term memory

Answer 9

The duration is indefinite it has unlimited capacity
But it must be stored associatively