Types of Memory
temporary storage and manipulation of information in the brain.
What is Short Term Memory?
A cognitive process is psychology where information is relatedly thought about or said to keep in short-term memory.
What is Maintenance Rehearsal?
A progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a gradual decline in cognitive functions, such as memory, thinking, reasoning, and judgment.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
Refers to the cognitive system that stores and retrieves information for extended periods of time.
What is Long Term Memory?
a memory strategy that involves actively processing and integrating new information with existing knowledge.
What is Elaborative Rehearsal?
A type of memory loss characterized by the inability to form new memories after a specific event or injury.
What is Anterograde Amnesia?
A cognitive system that temporarily stores and manipulates information while performing tasks.
What is Working Memory?
The ability to store and recall information over time.
A phenomenon in psychology where individuals have difficulty or an inability to recall autobiographical memories from their early childhood, typically before the age of 3-4
What is Infantile Amnesia?
a brief, temporary storage system that holds sensory information from the environment before it is processed and transferred to other memory systems.
What is Sensory Memory?
A type of memory loss where a person is unable to recall events, experiences, or information that occurred before a specific point in time.
What is Retrograde Amnesia?
The study of autobiographical memory, which is an individual's memory for specific, personal past events and life experiences