Stages
What are these terms for?
Sensory, Short Term, and Long Term
What are the three types of memory?
What is this type of memory?
Speaking, seeing, and using all of your senses.
What is sensory memory?
The process of preserving information for possible recollection in the future (next step after encoding)
What is storage?
A person with _________________ as a rare ability to recall specific events with exact dates and times from their past.
What is hyperthymesia?
While Ms. Patel is speaking to the class and is interrupted by a phone call or a student, she forgets what she was talking about. She often says, "where was I, I have _______________."
What is short-term memory loss
You can remember up to 7 units, bits, or items without a lot of difficulty
What is short term memory?
Information at the beginning and end of the list can be remembered easily is known as
What is serial position effect?
Captures exact copies of vast information (of sensory stimuli) for a sliver of time
What is sensory memory?
This type of memory lasts several minutes; 5-9 chunks of information.
What is working memory?
Process of accessing information encoded and stored in memory; often hard to do for many
What is retrieval?
thalamus, amygdala, hippocampus, cerebellum
What are the 4 primary areas of the brain involved in memory?
She is an expert on the accuracy of eyewitness testimony.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare"; you are aware of having this type of memory.
Is it implicit or explicit memory?
What is explicit memory?
____________ involves looking at or hearing information and matching it to what is already in memory.
What has almost unlimited capacity and can hold onto information indefinitely
What is long term memory?
This is unconscious memory of how to carry out a variety of skills and activities (implicit memory)
What is procedural memory?
Grouping numbers, letters, or other items into recognizable subsets as a strategy for increasing the quantity of information maintained in short-term memory.
What is chunking?
When are you taking the Memory test?
A detailed account of circumstances surrounding an emotionally significant or shocking, sometimes historic, event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
A memory of something you know or know how to do, which may be automatic and unconscious; you don't have to think about it.
What is implicit memory?
This makes it easier for people to recall info stored while in a particular emotional state if the recall occurs in a similar state. Ex: a newly married couple might recall their moment of happiness after listening to a particular song - which they danced to at their wedding.
What is state-dependent learning
What can temporarily maintain and process limited information for longer periods of time (about 30 seconds, if no distractions)
What is short term memory?
When you meet someone after a long time and reminisce about experiences you shared.
What is episodic memory?
A technique for improving memory is called
What is mnemonic?
When a person thinks they recognized or recalled something or someone but in fact they don't have that in memory.
What is false positive?
An inability to form new memories following damage to the brain.
What is anterograde amnesia?
The ability to access visual sensory memory by just looking at it once.
What is eidetic imagery?
most basic type of recall; (shower, instrument, driving)
What is procedural recall?
Brain processes involved in the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information is called
What is memory?
Facts about the world, general knowledge is what kind of memory?
What is semantic memory?
Serial, Free, Episodic, Procedural, Somatic, Eidetic are all
What are the types of recall?
A neural center located in the limbic system that helps process explicit memories for storage; allows for long term storage of memories
What is the hippocampus?
An inability to retrieve information from one's past prior to drain damage.
What is retrograde amnesia?
What is explicit memory?
When something is __________________________, you can't seem to say it, but the answer is so close, you're struggling to find the exact answer.
What is on the tip of the tongue?