Types of Memory
The process by which we recollect prior experiences, information and skills learned in the past.
What is memory?
The maintenance of encoded information over time.
Memory that holds info briefly before it’s stored or forgotten.
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is attention?
The type or stage of memory capable of large & relatively permanent storage.
What is long-term memory?
The memory of a specific event in your own life.
What is episodic memory?
The process of recalling information from memory storage.
What is retrieval?
The blockage of a memory by previous or subsequent memories or loss of a retrieval cue.
What is interference?
The failure to notice something obvious right in front of you.
What is inattentional blindness?
Memory where info is more easily retrieved when in the same physiological or emotional state as when the memory was originally encoded & stored.
What is state-dependent memory?
Our knowledge of language, its rules, words, and meanings.
What is semantic memory?
Repeating to keep things in short-term memory for more than a few seconds.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
The immediate, initial recording of sensory information.
What is sensory memory?
The psychologist who first did experiments on change blindness outside of a lab.
Who is Daniel Simons?
Retrieving info from memory without help. I.e. this game.
What is recall?
Memory that consists of the skills & procedures one has learned.
What is procedural memory?
Organizing of items into familiar or manageable units.
What is chunking?
The gradual erosion of a memory.
What is decay?
The failure to notice the difference between what is there right now and what was there a moment ago.
What is change blindness?
Our awareness, like a flashlight beam, focusing on a very limited aspect of all we experience.
What is selective attention?
The ability to remember with great accuracy visual information based on short-term exposure.
What is eidetic memory?
Translation of information into a form that can be stored in memory.
What is encoding?
Psychologist whose research involved the Curve of Forgetting.
Who is Ebbinghaus?
Examples of change blindness and misdirection being used in the real world.
Doing the right thing at the right time.
What is prudence?