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Psychology memory 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Memory | An active system that receives information from the senses, puts that information into a usable form, and organizes it as it stores it away , and then retrieves the information from storage |
| Encoding | The set of mental operations that people perform an sensory information to convert that information into a form that is usable in brains storage system |
| Storage | Holding onto information for some period of time |
| Retrieval | Getting information that is in storage form that can be used |
| Information-processing model | Model of memory that assumes the processing of information for memory storage is similar to the way a computer processes memory in a series of 3 stages |
| Levels of proccessing model | Model of memory that assumes information that is more "deeply processed" or processed according to meaning rather than just the sound or physical characteristics of the word or words, will be remembered more efficiently and for a longer period of time |
| Sensory Memory | The very first stage of memory, the point at which information enters the nervous system through the sensory systems |
| Short-term memory | The memory system in which information is hold for brief periods of time while being used |
| Selective Attention | The ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input |
| working memory | An active system that processes the information In short term energy |
| Maintenance rehearsal | Practice of saying some information to be remembered over and over in ones head in order to maintain it in short term |
| Long-Term memory | The system of memory into which all the information is placed to be kept more or less permanent |
| Elaborative rehearsal | A method of transferring information from STM with LTM by making that information meaningful in some way |
| Procedural (nondeclaritive) memory | Type of LTM including memory for skills, procedures, habits, and conditioned responses. These memories are not conscious but implied to exist because they affect conscious behavior |
| Implicit memory | Memory that is not easily brought into conscious awareness, such as procedural memory |
| Declarative memory | Type of LTM containing information that is conscious and known |
| Semantic memory | Type of declarative memory containing general knowledge, such as knowledge of language and information learned in formal education |
| Episodic memory | Type of declarative memory containing personal info not readily available to others, such a daily activities and events |
| explicit memory | Memory that is consciously known, such as declarative |
| retrieval cue | stimulus for remembering |
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