Memory

Question 1

Automatic processing

Answer 1

Implicit memories
Unconscious and internal
Quick encoding of incidental and well learned information
What we are, how we got here, who we talked to

Question 2

Effortful processing

Answer 2

Explicit memories
Slower, requires attention and conscious effort
Memorizing lists, focusing on information we don’t know, learning a new language

Question 3

Describe sensory memory and which has the strongest sense

Answer 3

Sensory memory is the immediate, initial recording of sensory information in the memory system
Echoic has the strongest sense of memory

Question 4

Contrast the storage capacity of long-term and short-term memory

Answer 4

Long term is an hour to limitless and short-term has a capacity for more than a few seconds, but less than a minute

Question 5

3 processes of memory

Answer 5

Encoding, retrieval, storage