Memory Processes and Recall
Sensory Memory
Short-Term Memory
Working Memory
Forgetting and Amnesia
100

The process of retaining information in memory.

What is storage?

100

The size of the capacity for sensory memory.

What is very large?

100

True or False:

Short-term memory is active in compared to working memory being passive.

False

100

This part is mainly found in the parietal and occipital lobe and is in charge of storing and manipulating visual and spatial information.

What is the visuospatial sketchpad?

100

The type of amnesia where one is not being able to recall old memories.

What is retrograde amnesia?

Think of "retro"

200

The process of bringing stored information to mind.

What is retrieval?

200

This is the basis of sensory memory.

What are physical properties of the stimuli?

200

Capacity of short-term memory.

What is 7 +/- 2 units of information?

200

This part of the working memory is located in the prefrontal cortex and controls the shift of attention between multiple aspects of complex tasks. Essentially deciding what to pay attention to and what not to pay attention to. 

What is the central executive function?

200

The theory of forgetting that claims forgetting is from the gradual fading of memory as a function of time.

What is decay theory?

300
The phenomena for learning things in a particular order, and then recalling them in that same order. 

What is serial recall?

300

This is needed to pass information onto short-term memory.

What is attention?

300

Duration of short term memory.

What is 15-18 seconds?

300
Give an example of a working memory. 

- Remembering a phone number

- Following directions

- Taking notes in class

- Cooking and remembering the recipe

- Mental Math

300

Define motivated forgetting. 

Repression of anxiety-provoking material 

Example: you cannot remember a traumatic childhood experience 

400

Define encoding

Converting information into a form usable in memory.

400

The shadowing task and cocktail phenomenon is an example of this memory; focusing on memory of sounds. 

What is echoic memory?

400

The intermediate stage between first encounter with new information and eventual storage; the workbench of short-term memory.

What is working memory?

400

This part of the working memory is located in the left cerebral hemisphere and stores and rehearses verbal and auditory information.

What is the phonological loop?

400

Define anterograde amnesia.

Not being able to create new memories.

Think of Fifty First Dates with Drew Barrymore.

500

The phenomena in which you learn it in a particular order, but you recall in a free/random order.

What is free recall?

500

Showing participants this below table then asking them to recall its contents, would be testing this type of memory.

X 2 4 P  

A C 0 2  

R 7 2 8 

What is iconic memory?

500

This strategy enhances the capacity of your short-term memory.

What is chunking?

500

The purpose of the episodic buffer.

  • Provides a mechanism for combining information stored in long-term memory 

  • Allows you to remember information pertaining to long term events 

500

"Early memories are nonverbal and later memories are verbal" and "More permanent memories require a sense of self" are both arguments of this infantile amnesia approach.

What is the cognitive approach?

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