Memory Flashcards
(30 cards)
Encoding
input of information into the memory system
this occurs through automatic processing & effortful processing
What’s the process of memory?
Encoding -> storage -> retrieval
Attention
What you’re focused on
which affects sensation and perception
Plays a significant role in determining what is sensed verous what is perceived.
Levels of Processing
Information that is thought of more deeply becomes more meaningful and thus better committed to memory
think of info more = meaning in the info = better remembrance
What are the different levels of Processing?
Shallow, Intermediate and Deep
Shallow Processing
What you recognize
not much meaning..
Intermediate Processing
Putting the information in your own words
a bit more meaning
Deep processing
Making the information personal
Putting a connection to the information to yourself.
Way more meaning obviously
Imagery
Turning Informaiton into a picture
Best for the memory
Elaboration
Adding on to or extending information
Helps with memory as well
Storage
Creation of a permanent record of information
What does it do?
Sensory Memory
Storage of brief sensory events such as sights, sounds & tastes
You won’t remember it unless its ionic memory or echoic memory
Echoic
Allows you to see life as a contious movie rather than still images
- eye
- 1/4 of a second
Vision Memory
What does it do?
Ionic Memory
Allows you to hear sounds to decode them
- ears
- 2-3 seconds
Hearing Memory
what does it entail?
Short Term Memory
- 20-30 second long, what you’re aware of
- Chunking [grouping info into pairs]
- Rehearsal [ repeating info]
- Working Memory [Conscious trying to solve a problem]
Long Term Memory
What is it?
- Permanent Memory
- Associationistic (information connected to other information in your mind)
What are the two sub types of long term memory?
And what does each one do?
Explict/Declarative Memory
- Episodic
- Semantic [delibrate rememrance]
Implict/Non-Declarative
- learned
- automatic [ex. catching]
for explict: weddings (ex)
Retriveval
Act of getting information out of long-term memory storage and back into conscious awareness
recall.
Senial Position Effect
Easier to retrieve information when you leanred first
Primacy Effect
You things you learn in the beginning easier rather than the middle
Recency Effect
Easier to recall the newest stuff rather than the middle (not the middle)
easier to remember beginning and end
Retrieval Cue & Tasks
Delibrately trying to get information
Cue
Retrival Cue & Tasks
Question or a signal to get information
Task
Retrival Cue & Tasks
Getting the information
