Memory Types
Recall
Study Techniques
Amnesia
Random
100

Memories are easily recalled when you are in a similar state as to when they were formed

State-Dependent Memory

100

Re-accessing memory and info from the past

Retrieval

100

Remembering a phone number in groups of numbers rather than a string of them (520-123-4567 instead of 5201234567)

Chunking

100

Over time, your memories of the first day of high school or your birthday five years ago begin to fade

Memory Decay

100

You see a car accident, where one car is much faster than the other. After, a police officer tells you both cars were moving very fast, and suddenly you remember that instead.

Misinformation Effect

200

The recollection of past experiences that occurred at a specific time and place

Episodic Memory

200

You are able to walk freely without focusing on or adapting to it

Automatic Processing

200

Remembering the order of the rainbow using ROY G BIV

Mnemonic Device

200

You cannot remember the events of your second birthday party or the day you learned to walk

Infantile Amnesia

200

Remembering an event that did not happen (recalling someone on the street when there wasn't anyone there)

False Memories

300

Helps you perform routine tasks without conscious recollection of remembering how to do them (like tying shoes, spelling your name)

Procedural Memory

300

Knowing the first letter of the alphabet is 'a' without a cue

Free Recall

300

Testing your memory of to-be-remembered information (studying before a test)

Retrieval Practice

300

Unconsciously excluding distressing memories or thoughts from your mind

Repression

300

Having very vivid, accurate and lasting memories of a stressful event, such as watching the Twin Towers collapse on television or the moment you heard your grandfather had died

Flashbulb Memories

400

Memory of facts and experiences you consciously remember

Explicit Memory

400

When you repeat information to yourself in order to remember it temporarily

Rehearsal

400

Interpreting information around you in relation to yourself (at a party, you hear your name said in a conversation you are not part of)

Self-referent Encoding

400

Retaining long-term memories but unable to form new or recent memories after an event

Anterograde Amnesia

400

Someone describing a car as "speeding by" instead of "driving by" makes you remember the car moving much faster

Wording Effect on memory

500

Type of memory that is affected by prior experience without conscious recollection

Implicit Memory

500

You can't remember what you had for dinner last Tuesday or what clothes you wore two days ago

Encoding Failure

500

Learning material through verbal associations and visual imagery

Dual Coding

500

The inability to recall information from before an event, despite continued ability to form new memories

Retrograde Amnesia

500

Retracing your steps through your house to remember where you placed your car keys

Context-Dependent Memory

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