Techniques
Remembering a persons name
Recall
Remembering the lyrics to a long forgotten song
Acoustic Memory
Identifying previously learned information when you see or hear it again
Recognition(Retrieval)
Forgetting a childhood birthday party
Decay
Recalling something that happened in the same room or place of the incident
Double Answer
Context and State Dependence
Dividing a ten digit phone number to 3 segments
Chunking
Recalling your first day of school
Episodic Memory
Recognizing the layout of a familiar room with your eyes closed
Visual Memory
Trying to study for a math test while watching the Knicks game.
Interferance
Walking into a new Coffee Shop
Double Answer
Schema & Encoding
Remembering your childhood friends name
Retrieval
Remembering a phone number just long enough to dial it.
Short Term Memory
Remembering how to tie your shoelaces
Procedural Memory
Being able to recall memories from the past and not current or vice versa.
Amnesia
Focusing on a loud conversation in the next room and immediately noticing when someone says your name
Double Answer
Attention & Recognition
Repeating a phone number to yourself
Rehearsal
Remembering how to ride a bike after not using it for quite some time
Long Term Memory
Remembering your home address
Declarative Memory
A person in a car accident may forget their fiance
Retrograde Amnesia
Learning a new language using a spaced repetition system
Double Answer
Principal Learning & Learning Curve
Using mnemonic (Ex. Roy G. Biv)
Elaboration
Remember seeing the guy who is always walking u your street after driving past him earlier.
Sensory Memory
Knowing that Washington D.C is the capital of the United States
Semantic Memory
Forgetting someone that you had just met
Anterograde Amnesia
Using HOMES to remember the great lakes
Mnemonic