Type of Memory
A type of short-term memory that helps us remember sounds for a few seconds. It allows us to briefly hold and process spoken words or other noises.
Acoustic Memory
The process of focusing on specific sensory information, like sights, sounds, or smells, while ignoring other stimuli. It helps the brain filter and prioritize important sensory input.
Attention
When old or new information disrupts your ability to remember something, making retrieval harder.
Interference
A type of declarative memory that involves recalling personal experiences or specific events in your life.
Episodic Memory
A condition where a person loses memories of events that happened before a brain injury or trauma. It affects past memories but usually does not impact the ability to form new ones.
Retrograde Amnesia
The very short-lasting memory that briefly retains information from the senses, like sights and sounds.
Sensory Memory
The process of repeating information to keep it in short-term memory or transfer it to long-term memory.
Rehearsal
The fading or weakening of memory over time when it isn’t used or recalled.
Decay
The type of long-term memory that stores facts and events that can be consciously recalled.
Declarative Memory
A condition where a person cannot form new memories after a brain injury or trauma. Past memories usually remain intact, but learning or remembering new information becomes difficult.
Anterograde amnesia
A type of long-term memory that helps you remember how to perform tasks and skills, such as typing or swimming.
Procedural Memory
The ability to identify previously learned information when it's presented, like recognizing a face or a multiple-choice answer.
Recognition
Refers to the rate at which someone gains knowledge or skill over time, often showing improvement with practice.
Schema
A memory aid or technique that helps you remember information, like using acronyms or rhymes.
mnemonic
When you remember information better in the same environment or situation where you first learned it.
Context Dependence
The ability to remember and recall images, shapes, and visual information
Visual Memory
A memory strategy that involves grouping information into larger, meaningful units or "chunks" to make it easier to remember.
Chunking
The process of taking in information and converting it into a form that can be stored in memory.
Encoding
Involves understanding the underlying rules or concepts that can be applied to many situations, not just memorizing facts.
Principal Learning
The process of adding meaning or making connections to new information to help remember it better.
Elaboration
A type of long-term memory that stores general knowledge and facts, like the meaning of words or historical dates.
Semantic Memory
The act of accessing stored information from memory when you need it.
Retrieval
A condition that causes memory loss, affecting a person's ability to remember past events, form new memories, or both. It can result from brain injury, illness, or psychological trauma.
Amnesia
When your ability to recall information is improved if you're in the same physical or emotional state as when you learned it.
State dependence
Is the part of the brain that stores information for days, years, or even a lifetime.
Long Term Memory