Subcatagories
Memory of skills, like how you remember how to ride your bike.
What is procedural memory?
The retrieval of a memory with little to no external cues, like a short-answer question.
What is recall?
A type of learning through simple repetition, like when practicing piano.
What is rote rehearsal/learning?
Fleeting recollections that need to be rehersed to keep in mind, like memorizing a vocabulary word to use it for a test but forgetting it after the test ends.
What is short term memory?
Remembering basic information such as dates, the names of seasons, words, like this vocab assignment.
What is semantic memory?
The retrieval of a memory with external cues, like on a multiple choice test.
What is recognition?
Meaningful units of information, as stored in short-term memory, like the multi-word title of a movie being remembered as one thing.
What is information bits?
Something that has unlimited storage capacity and is where memories are stored after consolidation, such as where you store the names of your best friends.
What is long term memory?
A type of memory that allows you to picture an image right after seeing it briefly, or that lets you react to a stoplight changing color almost immediately.
What is sensory memory?
A process of grouping similar information together for easier storage in memory, like remembering 4-number sequences as years.
What is chunking?
Making a memory more meaningful by attaching it to new information, and therefore remembering it better, like remembering history through sequences instead of dates.
What is elaborative processing?
A recollection a person is not aware of having, like repressed trauma.
What is implicit memory?
A type of long-term memory of events that requires conscious recollection along with their context (time, place, emotions), like remembering your birthday.
What is episodic memory?
Retrieval of an implicit memory by using hidden cues, like what you hope to do in therapy to process things.
What is priming?
The psychological phenomenon that occurs when you repeat a phrase to memorize it, moving it from short-term memory into long-term memory, such as what you hope to do when memorizing lines.
What is encoding?
Another name for short-term memory, like what you use to keep a phone number in mind while you write it down.
What is working memory?