Memory
This process involves converting sensory information into a usable form for the brain.
What is encoding?
Memory that can be consciously retrieved and verbalised.
What is explicit memory?
This memory store holds information we are consciously aware of.
What is short-term memory?
This structure is responsible for encoding, consolidating and retrieving explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
Memories made up of both episodic and semantic elements are called these.
What are autobiographical memories?
This memory process depends heavily on the use of cues to access stored information.
What is retrieval?
Knowing how to ride a bike is an example of this type of memory.
What is implicit memory?
According to Atkinson & Shiffrin, STM can store information for about this length of time without rehearsal.
What is 18–30 seconds?
This brain region permanently stores explicit memories.
What is the neocortex?
The ability to mentally project oneself into the future is called this.
What is episodic future thinking?
This memory store acts as the entry point for all incoming sensory information.
What is sensory memory?
This type of explicit memory involves facts and general knowledge.
What is semantic memory?
STM has a capacity of approximately this many items.
What is 7 ± 2 items?
This structure assigns emotional significance to events and enhances memory strength.
What is the amygdala?
The term for mentally travelling backward or forward in time.
What is mental time travel?
This stage of memory keeps information over time and benefits from organisation.
What is storage?
Memories of personal experiences, such as a birthday party, fall under this system.
What is episodic memory?
This strategy increases STM capacity by grouping information.
What is chunking?
This brain structure is crucial for habit formation and procedural memory.
What are the basal ganglia?
Patients with this condition often cannot imagine future events or recall personal memories.
What is amnesia?
The information processing model describes memory as a system with these three sequential stages.
What are encoding, storage and retrieval?
Implicit memories are also known by this term.
What is non-declarative memory?
Information is lost from STM by these two processes.
What are decay and displacement?
This structure plays a major role in conditioned reflexes like learned eye‑blink responses.
What is the cerebellum?
Brain imaging shows that remembering the past and imagining the future use this feature.
What is overlapping brain activity in the same regions?