Memory
Process
Hindrances
Enhancements
Types
10
The set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over time
Memory
10
Input of sounds, words, and music
Acoustic encoding.
10
Inability to form new memories
Anterograde Amnesia
10
Father of Experimental Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
10
Conscious Memories that can be put into words, such as events, facts, and word meanings
Declarative or Explicit memory
20
Inputs information into the memory system
Encoding
20
Input of words and their meaning
Semantic encoding
20
Accessibility of information in memory is temporarily blocked
Blocking
20
Conscious repetition of information to be remembered.
Rehearsal
20
Experienced Events like Birthday Parties, Weddings, etc
Episodic memory
30
Is the retention of the encoded information
Storage
30
Where you hold information you are consciously aware of
Short-Term Memory
30
Memory is distributed across the cortex – made by multiple neuro pathways.
Distributive Nature of Memory
30
Technique in which you think about the meaning of the new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory.
Elaborative rehearsal
30
Unconscious Memories that replicate learned behaviors, including emotions.
Non-Declarative or Implicit memory
40
Is getting the information out of memory and back into awareness
Retrieval
40
7 +/- 2
Capacity of short-term memory
40
Loss of memory for events that occurred prior to brain trauma
Retrograde Amnesia
40
Memory aids that help us organize information for encoding.
Mnemonic devices
40
Skills and Actions such as Riding a bike, using a mop, etc…
Procedural memory
50
The transformation of one kind of energy into another kind of energy.
Transduction
50
A memory store for briefly holding sensory information, primarily sights and sounds
Sensory memory
50
Effects of misinformation from external sources lead to the creation of false memories
Suggestibility
50
Make information personally meaningful to YOU to help improve retention.
The self-reference effect
50
Emotional responses to life events are stored. These emotional memories can be activated by new, external or internal events.
Emotional Conditioning