Memory
Mental processing involved in acquiring, storing, and recovering knowledge.
What is memory?
Temporary storage site where sensory information is stored and organized
What is Short term memory?
Can be permanent and also has an unlimited storage space
What is long term memory?
The two types of thoughts
What are concepts/schema?
All learning will decay if not used because memory deteriorates as time passes
What is decay theory
What stage of memory processing acquires information
What is Encoding?
Process of repeating information by repetition
What is Maintenance rehearsal/rote rehearsal?
The two types of Explicit and declarative memories
What are semantic memories and episodic memories
A rule that is generally used to make a judgement to solve a problem
What is Heuristics
Forgetting takes place when one memory must compete with another similar memory
What is inference theory
The three stages of memory processing
What is Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval?
new information is actively reviewed and linked to information already stored in
What is Elaborative rehearsal?
The two types of long term memory
What are declarative and procedural memory?
The two types of heuristics
What are representative and availability Heuristic
The two types of the inference theory
What is proactive and Retroactive interference?
The three stages in Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory (In order)
What is sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory?
The two parts of the brain short term memory depends on
What are the frontal and parietal lobes?
The two types of implicit and non-declarative memories
What are Emotional and procedural memories?
Maintaining a belief even after it has been proven wrong
What is belief perseverance
The two types of amnesia
What are retrograde and anterograde?
process which long term memories are formed through strengthening of connection of neurons
What is Long term potential?
The capacity is 6 to 8 items of information
What is limited memory?
info from the beginning of a list is remembered better than material in the middle
What is primacy effect
Believing things that fit in with their belief system without considering if it is correct or giving much thought
What is belief bias?
Characterized by blocking out of critical personal information, usually of traumatic or stressful nature
What is dissociative amnesia?