Psychology Part 2 heh Flashcards
(53 cards)
Memory
The psychological process of learning through acquiring, storing, and retrieving information.
Formation of memory involves
Physical formation of brain
Hippocampi Synapses
Junction between braincells
Explicit memories
Pieces of knowledge that can be consciously remembered
Three types of conscious memories
Episodic
Semantic
Working
Episodic
Firsthand experiences
Semantic
general world knowledge
Working
Short term processing of info
Implicit memories
memories that don’t require conscious recollection of previous events
Procedural memories
Memories on how to do certain things
3 ways of measuring memory (Re)
Recall
Recognition
Relearning
Recall
Retrieving information that was learned at an earlier time without being prompted
Recognition
Identifying items previously learned.
Relearning
Understanding something more efficiently the 2nd time learning it
3 Memory stages
Sensory
Working
Long term
Sensory
Recording of sense information
A few seconds
Long term
can last decades
Priming
a process in memory retrieval where exposure to one stimulus influences how you respond to a later stimulus.
(Context)-dependent memory
better able to recall information when they are in the same environment where they initially learned it
(State)-dependent memory
the phenomenon where people are better able to recall information when they are in the same physical or emotional state as when the memory was formed
Learning
Behavior changing due to stimulus
Stimulus
An experience that creates a specific reaction
Conditioning
Learning to respond to a particular stimulus, in a specific way.
Classical
How an individual learns to transfer a natural response from one stimulus, to another
