Memory Processes and Recall
The process of retaining information in memory.
What is storage?
The size of the capacity for sensory memory.
What is very large?
True or False:
Short-term memory is active in compared to working memory being passive.
False
This part is mainly found in the parietal and occipital lobe and is in charge of storing and manipulating visual and spatial information.
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
The type of amnesia where one is not being able to recall old memories.
What is retrograde amnesia?
Think of "retro"
The process of bringing stored information to mind.
What is retrieval?
This is the basis of sensory memory.
What are physical properties of the stimuli?
Capacity of short-term memory.
What is 7 +/- 2 units of information?
This part of the working memory is located in the prefrontal cortex and controls the shift of attention between multiple aspects of complex tasks. Essentially deciding what to pay attention to and what not to pay attention to.
What is the central executive function?
The theory of forgetting that claims forgetting is from the gradual fading of memory as a function of time.
What is decay theory?
What is serial recall?
This is needed to pass information onto short-term memory.
What is attention?
Duration of short term memory.
What is 15-18 seconds?
- Remembering a phone number
- Following directions
- Taking notes in class
- Cooking and remembering the recipe
- Mental Math
Define motivated forgetting.
Repression of anxiety-provoking material
Example: you cannot remember a traumatic childhood experience
Define encoding
Converting information into a form usable in memory.
The shadowing task and cocktail phenomenon is an example of this memory; focusing on memory of sounds.
What is echoic memory?
The intermediate stage between first encounter with new information and eventual storage; the workbench of short-term memory.
What is working memory?
This part of the working memory is located in the left cerebral hemisphere and stores and rehearses verbal and auditory information.
What is the phonological loop?
Define anterograde amnesia.
Not being able to create new memories.
Think of Fifty First Dates with Drew Barrymore.
The phenomena in which you learn it in a particular order, but you recall in a free/random order.
What is free recall?
Showing participants this below table then asking them to recall its contents, would be testing this type of memory.
X 2 4 P
A C 0 2
R 7 2 8
What is iconic memory?
This strategy enhances the capacity of your short-term memory.
What is chunking?
The purpose of the episodic buffer.
Provides a mechanism for combining information stored in long-term memory
Allows you to remember information pertaining to long term events
"Early memories are nonverbal and later memories are verbal" and "More permanent memories require a sense of self" are both arguments of this infantile amnesia approach.
What is the cognitive approach?