Definitions : Topic - Memory Flashcards
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Coding
Can be stored acoustically or visually
Capacity
How much?
Duration
How long?
Procedural
Remembering how to perform actions
e.g - riding a bike, holding a pen
Semantic
Is anything that has meaning towards it, which is also delclarative
Episodic
This means remembering episodes in your life and this contains explict information and this is called declartive knowledge.
Procedural knowledge
Indirect memories, that uses your memory to remember how to perform the actions
Declarative Knowledge
The knowlege of facts, concepts, and principles that can be stated or declared
e.g. A car has four tires.
Temporal lobe
Control semantic knowledge & memory
Hippocampus
Responsible for episodic memory regulates emotion
Cerebellum
Large parts of your brain responsible for autonomice and automatic function.
Reductionism
Refers to reducing behaviour down to one course
Explict
Knowing that something exists
Implicit
Knowing how something exists
Semantic
Giving each word a different meaning
Acoustic
Words that sound different to one another