CED Unit 2 (Introduction to Memory) Flashcards
Retrieval
Getting memory back from storage
Explicit memory
Things we try to remember
Episodic memory
Personal experiences
Semantic memory
General knowledge and facts
Implicit memory
Things we remember without thinking about it
Procedural memory
Learned skills
Prospective memory
Future tasks and intentions
Long-term potentiation
How memory gets wired into our brains at a cellular level
Working memory model
Describes how we temporarily store and manipulate information
Central executive
Coordinates all components (like loop and sketchpad)
Phonological loop
Verbal information
Visuospatial sketchpad
Visual and spatial data
Sensory memory
Holds raw sensory input briefly
Iconic memory
Visual
Echoic memory
Auditory
Automatic processing
Requires minimal attention to process memory
Effortful processing
Demands conscious focus to process memory
Encoding
The process of putting information into memory
Structural, phonemic, semantic
Physical features, sound patterns, meaning and associations
