Memory Flashcards
What is meant by storage?
Keeping information in the brain
What is meant by encoding?
Getting information
What is meant retrieval?
Getting the information back out
What is the multi-store?
The idea that information passes through a series of memory stores
What is the sensory store?
information received from the senses for a very short period of time
What is the recency effect?
Information received later that is recalled better than earlier information
What is primacy effect?
The first information received is recalled better than the latter information
What is reconstructive memory?
Alerting out recollection of things so that they make more sense to us
What is levels of processing?
The depth at which information is thought about when trying to learn it
What is meant by interference?
Things that we have learnt that make it difficult to recall other information that we have learnt
What is retroactive interference?
When information we have recently learnt hinders our ability to recall information we have learnt previously
What is proactive interference?
When information we have already learnt hinders our ability to recall new information
What is meant by context?
The general setting or environment in which activities happen
What is the hippocampus?
A brain structure that is crucial for memory
What is meant by Anterograde amnesia?
Being unable to learn new information after suffering brain damage
