Basic Processing Model
Process of retaining information in memory so it can be used at a later time.
What is storage?
Process which allows information to transfer from sensory memory to short-term memory.
What is paying attention?
Storage capacity of STM.
What is 7+-2?
Amount of time information can be stored in LTM.
What is permanently/forever?
When one piece of information makes storing or recalling other information more difficult, particularly when the information is similar to the information already in memory.
What is interference?
Involves recovering information. Involves cues or prompts. Fill-in-the-blank activities.
What is recall?
Type of information collected and stored within sensory memory?
What is raw information?
Amount of time information can be held in STM.
What is 20 seconds?
Process of accessing information stored in LTM.
What is retrieval?
When we forget because we have a strong desire or motive to forget, usually because it is too disturbing or unpleasant to remember.
What is motivated forgetting?
When information is recovered from memory into conscious awareness.
What is retrieval?
Memory of auditory sensory information.
What is echoic memory?
Grouping of smaller bits of information into larger, more meaningful units of information to increase capacity of STM.
What is chunking?
Memory of how we perform different actions, operations and skills.
What is procedural memory?
Disease that causes gradual forgetfulness, eventually resulting in the considerable loss of episodic memory.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
Correctly identifying or selecting previously learning information from a set of alternatives.
What is recognition?
Memory system that stores information for 2-4 seconds.
What is echoic memory?
Superior recall for items at the end of a list.
What is the recency effect?
Declarative memory system that store events involving personal experiences.
What is episodic memory?
Loss of memory for experiences occurring after the amnesia-causing event.
What is anterograde amnesia?
The process of converting information into a form that can be retained in memory.
What is encoding?
Stores all incoming sensory information in individual subsystems, with one for each sense (sound, touch, sight, smell, taste).
What are sensory registers?
A method to more effectively encode information into your long-term memory by requiring the brain to process it in a more in-depth way.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
Contains facts and information about the world that can be verbally communicated.
What is semantic memory?
German psychologist widely regarded as the first person to scientifically study forgetting.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?