Memories
The type of memories that remember skills and lasts a lifetime
Procedural memory
This stage of memory only holds information for a fraction of a second
Sensory memory
Term for when you're unable to retrieve memories
Amnesia
When new information pushes out old information in your short term memory
Interference
The feeling when you know an answer but you can't express it at the moment
Tip of the tongue phenomenon
Term for being able to remember images with perfect clarity
This memory, synonymous with working memory, starts to fade unless we rehearse it!
Short term memory
Give me one of the three types of memory that will never fade with age
Priming, Conditioning, Procedural
What is the limit of human memory? How many pieces of information are we capable of memorizing?
There is no limit to the capacity of human memory
Your social security number is an example of this organizational technique
Chunking
Memory in which you recall a specific, significant event in great detail
Flashbulb memory
When you know information from repeating it over and over again
Maintenance Rehearsal/ Shallow Processing
or Acoustic code
Severe memory loss in which you can't form new memories after a traumatic event
Anterograde Amnesia
When you remember something based on where you are or what you smell, see, hear, etc.
Context depedent memory
In short term memory, how many items can be remembered and for how long?
7 +/- 2 items
2 - 18 seconds
Type of memory when you can't remember when you learned something, yet you know it
Generic memory
Making connections between new information and already known information to better keep it held in your long term memory is known as what?
Elaborative rehearsal or Deep Processing
When people can't remember any part of their life prior to a traumatic event
Retrograde Amnesia
Give an example of priming
ex. You are faster reading a word aloud if you have recently read it
Memory can be split into two different systems. What are they?
Explicit and Implicit
When you remember something based on you having the same mood as when it first occurred
State dependent memory
The order in which you remember information
Sensory
Short term
Long term
Three different possible causes of memory loss
Traumatic brain injury, concussion, severe emotional trauma, dementia, Alzheimers, old age, etc.
What are the three types of codes that help us encode information, and give an example of one
Visual, acoustic, and semantic codes
The tendency to remember the first and last parts in a series of information
Primacy and recency effect