Types of Memory
Processing
Listing Questions
Semantic Memory
Miscellaneous
100
A category of long-term memory that involves the recollection of specific events, situations, and experiences.
What is Episodic Memory?
100
Processing may be automatic or it may be _________.
What is controlled?
100
This type of processing has the following characteristics: it is subconscious, it is obligatory and it takes up little or no room in working memory.
What is Automatic Processing?
100
The sense that people have the same basic knowledge of objects, actions, living and non-living things, etc.
What is the core of semantic memory?
100
These are stored separately from words but the two are intimately connected.
What are concepts?
200
Consists of fact-based information that can be consciously retrieved.
What is Explicit Memory?
200
Controlled Processing is also known as this.
What is Strategic Processing?
200
This type of memory is also known as short-term memory.
What is Working Memory?
200
This is the simplest unit of semantic memory.
What is a concept?
200
The memory for the present holds on to representations of this.
What is current input?
300
Long-term memory knowledge that can be retrieved then reflected on consciously.
What is Declarative Memory?
300
Working memory receives input from these directions.
What is top-down and bottom-up?
300
This type of processing has the following characteristics: it is conscious, it can be intentional, and it is effortful and takes up room in working memory.
What is Controlled Processing?
300
This type of memory is central to comprehension and meaningful use of words.
What is Semantic memory?
300
A property of this type of memory is that capacity is 7 items (plus or minus 2).
What is working memory?
400
Knowledge of ways of doing things; skill memory.
What is Procedural Memory?
400
These are directed by what we already know.
What are Top-Down Processes?
400
This type of memory contains the following types of memory: episodic, semantic, lexical, and procedural.
What is Long Term Memory?
400
Semantic memory structure is thought of as this.
What is Semantic Network?
400
A subtype of this type of memory is lexical.
What is Long-Term Memory?
500
Word forms and information about words.
What is Lexical Memory?
500
These processes are stimulus driven.
What Bottom-up Processes?
500
These include follow through, sustained attention, performance monitoring, inhibition of impulses, goal-directed behavior, and working memory.
What are executive functions?
500
The representation of a class of objects or actions.
What is a concept?
500
This type of processing takes up room in the working memory.
What is controlled processing?