Memory Techniques
A strategy that involves repeating information to memorize it, such as reciting multiplication tables.
What is rote rehearsal?
A brief storage of sensory information that lasts for a few seconds, such as echoic memory, or hearing words after they have already been said.
What is sensory memory?
Long term memory for how to perform tasks or skills, such as riding a bike.
What is procedural memory?
A stimulus that helps to access stored information from memory, such as linking the smell of cookies to your childhood kitchen.
What is a retrieval cue?
What is implicit memory?
A memory technique that involves grouping individual pieces of information into units in order to memorize it, such as splitting a phone number into groups of 3 and 4 digits?
What is chunking?
The brain's temporary holding space for a small amount of information (15-30 seconds), such as remembering a phone number long enough to dial it.
What is short term memory?
General knowledge of facts/concepts/etc. that is stored without context, such as knowing Paris is the capital of France.
A form of remembering something through familiarity, such as seeing someone's face you recognize and remembering their name.
What is recognition?
Conscious recall of facts and personal experiences, such as remembering items on your to-do list at the grocery store.
What is explicit memory?
A technique that involves linking new information to existing knowledge in order to memorize it, such as associating a word in a new language to one in your native tongue.
What is elaborative processing?
Storage in the brain for information, facts, and/or experiences that lasts for years, such as remembering a childhood birthday party.
What is long term memory?
Long term memory that stores personal experiences or events, such as remembering what you ate for breakfast a week ago.
A cognitive process of retrieving information from long term memory without the help of external cues, such as answering fill-in-the-blank questions.
What is recall?
A form of implicit memory where a past experience can cause a person to react a certain way to a new stimulus; for example, hearing the word "yellow" can make someone respond faster to "banana" than "television".
What is priming?