Types
the brains ability to store information, skills, and experiences from extended periods of time
What is long term memory
Cognitive processes that occur without conscious awareness or effort
What is Automatic
the process of converting sensory information into a format that can be stored on memory
What is encoding
A school of thought that emphasized study of the structure and elements of consciousness
What is Structural
initial stage of memory that captures raw sensory information from the environment
Ex:sights sounds and smells
conscious and deliberate cognitive processes that require attention and effort to store information
What is Effortful
process of maintaining information in the brain overtime for later retrieval
What is Storage
study of phonemes, smallest meaningful unit of sound
What is phonemic
a type of visual sensory memory that briefly retains a mental picture of a visual stimulus for a fraction of a second before it fades
What is iconic memory
framework that explains memory as a sequences of three distinct stores
sensory,short-term and long term
What is multistore
process of accessing and bringing sorted information from memory into conscious awareness
retrieval
Branch of cognitive psych. that studies how humans acquire stores and retrieves memory
What is semantic
type of sensory memory that briefly holds auditory information, like sounds or words, allowing brain to process
What is Echoic Memory
a theory that says memory formation depends of depth of cognitive processing applied to information
what is levels of processing
processing of information based on physical or acoustic features, rather than meaning
What is Shallow encoding
Memory system used for permanent storage of memory is called.....
What is long term memory
deep encoding
cognitive process where information is processed at a deeper lever, better memory retention
What is deep encoding