Memory Process
The process of retaining encoded information over time.
What is Storage?
Retention of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare."
What is Explicit Memory
The process of remembering to perform actions or tasks in the future.
What is Prospective Memory?
The process of getting information out of memory storage.
What is Retrieval
Retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection.
What is Implicit Memory
The process of temporarily holding small amounts of information for immediate use.
What is Primary Memory System?
The relativity permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experience.
What is Long-Term Potentation?
Explict memory of personally experiences events; one of our two conscious memory Systems.
What is Episodic Memory
The process of directing attention and coordinating different parts of working memory.
What is Central Executive?
A newer understanding of short-term memory that adds consciousness, active processing of incoming auditory and visual information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory.
What is Working Memory?
Explicit memory of facts and general knowledge; one of our two conscious memory Systems.
What is Semantic Memory
The process of storing and rehearsing auditory and verbal information.
What is Phonological Loop?
A theory that explains how working memory is organized into separate systems that actively process different types of information while being controlled by a central executive that manages attention and coordination.
What is Working Memory Model
The process of remembering how to perform tasks and actions.
What is Procedural Memory?
The process of holding and manipulating visual and spatial information in the mind.
What is Visuospatial Sketch?