Types of Memory
What is sensory memory?
An inability to form new memories after some type of brain damage is referred to as this type of amnesia.
What is anterograde amnesia?
This patient, referred to by his initials, showed the importance of the hippocampus in memory.
Who is HM?
Use this technique next time you need to remember something like a phone number, by grouping smaller things together to help remember them.
What is chunking?
Riding a bike or driving both involve this type of memory, which is implicit.
What is procedural memory?
The tendency to remember the beginning of a list but forget more of the middle is related to this specific memory effect.
What is the primacy effect?
This psychologist is famous for his sensory memory test, where he would present grids of letters to participants and see how many they remembered.
Who is Sperling?
The Levels of Processing Theory states that this type of processing, where we only process things on a superficial level, is not as effective.
What is shallow processing?
The ability to use short-term memory strategically to problem solve involves this specific type of memory.
What is working memory?
The impaired ability to remember your very first phone number because of interference from your new phone number is referred to as this type of amnesia.
What is retroactive interference?
This man had an iron rod propelled through his skull and survived, but showed interesting personality changes.
Who is Phineas Gage?
During this activity, done every night, our memories are consolidated.
Knowing that George Washington was the first US president is an example of this type of fact-oriented memory.
What is semantic memory?
This term refers to the inability of adults to recall memories from before age 2.
What is childhood amnesia?
This patient, referred to by his initials, had a motorcycle accident that impaired his STM showed that STM and LTM operate in different parts of the brain.
Who is KF?
This effect occurs when a person is conditioned by seeing some sort of stimulus which then affects how they react to a later stimulus.
What is priming?
Memories for emotionally salient, vivid events, like 9/11, are categorized under this camera-like type of memory.
What are flashbulb memories?
Short-term memory tends to last for only this amount of time.
What is 15-20 seconds?
Who is Brenda Milner?
This term refers to the way information is represented in the mind and later remembered, such as visual, auditory, or semantic contents.
What is coding?