Types of Memory
Memory that holds a quick effect one on of the senses for a few seconds, like a flash of light.
What is Sensory Memory?
Conversion of info into a form suitable for memory retention.
What is Encoding?
Bringing information back to mind, like answering a test question from memory.
What is Recall?
Small amounts of info held for short periods of time, like remembering a phone number long enough to make a quick call.
What is Short-Term Memory (STM)?
Recollection where a person knows something that has happened, and where a person can consciously retrieve a memory.
What is Explicit Memory?
Recognizing things and previously learned info, like a hand in poker, or a pattern with numbers or letters.
What is Recognition?
Another name for STM, but used in particular when using your brain to think or problem-solve, like mental math, or when looking for a solution to something.
What is Working Memory?
Recollection that happens unconsciously, like playing an instrument, and even automatic emotional responses.
What is Implicit Memory?
Any info which can trigger a retrieval of certain memories, can be emotions sounds and feelings which help to access.
What is a Retrieval Cue?
Type of LTM, stores general knowledge of the world including the knowledge of facts, and concepts, like knowing Earth is a planet, and the Sun is a star.
What is Semantic Memory?
Learning through simple repetition, like listening to songs, and actively trying to learn the lyrics by singing it repeatedly.
What is Rote Rehearsal?
Process of grouping similar and meaningful info in your mind to remember, could be used with phone numbers like 867-5309, and also Acronyms.
What is Chunking?
Part of LTM, applies for how a person does something which require motor and performance skills, applies with muscle memory.
Making memories more meaningful through processing that encodes links between new info and your existing memory and knowledge, like studying for a psych test, with remembering the parts of a neuron.
What is Elaborative Processing?
Facilitating the retrieval of an implicit memory using cues to activate memories or recognize something, like recognizing the word "nurse" if the word "doctor" was presented before, rather than a random word.
What is Priming?