Memory Flashcards
Memory Processing and storage
What model is used to show the stages of memory processing?
Information Processing Model
What is required for information to move from encoding to Short term memory?
Attention
What are the two types of memory retrieval?
Recall & Recognition
What are the two types of sensory memory?
Echoic & Iconic
Describe Echoic and Iconic Memory
Echoic memory is information memorised by sounds
Iconic memory is information memorised by images such as colours
What are the three mains stages of information processing?
Encoding -> Storage -> Retrieval
what are the two types of memory encoding?
Automatic and Effortful
What is the difference between cued and free recall?
Cued recall - A cue or hint is given to aid in recall
Free recall - Recalling freely without the assistance of cues and hints
What is the difference between procedural and declarative memory?
Procedural memory involves things you do not have to think about before doing (eating, walking, talking etc)
Declarative memory is recall consciously and intentionally with effort
Differentiate episodic and semantic memory
Episodic - Remembering events and experiences
Semantic - Remembering basic, common facts such as house address
What is the recency effect?
People are more likely to remember the most recent piece of information
What is the primacy effect?
People are more likely to remember the first piece of information in a series
Define forgetting
Inability to retrieve information previously stored in memory
Which type of memory loss occurs AFTER an amnesia causing event?
Anterograde amnesia
What is infantile amnesia?
The inability to recall memories from early childhood (0-4 years)
