The information in short term memory is only stored for a certain time.
What is 15-25 seconds?
100
Memory in which information is stored on a relatively permanent basis, but can be difficult to retrieve.
What is long term memory?
100
The first stage of rembering something that involves recording of information in a form usable to memory.
What is encoding?
100
Categorization of objects, events, or people that share common properties.
What are concepts?
100
The communication of information through symbols arranged according to systematic rules.
What is language?
200
This is a meaningful group of stimuli that can be stored as a unit in short term memory.
What is chunking?
200
Memory for factual information such as names, dates, faces and facts.
What is declarative memory?
200
The maintenance of material saved in memory.
What is storage?
200
A rule that is applied appropriately, will guarantee a solution to a problem.
What is an algorithm?
200
Meaningless speech-like sounds made by children from around the age of three months through one year.
What is babble?
300
This is an example of trying to remember a phone number, repeating it over and over again, until you can write it down.
What is rehearsal?
300
Memory for skills and habits such as how to ride a bike or drive a car.
What is procedural memory?
300
While taking a test in school you use this part of memory to answer the questions.
What is retrieval?
300
The tendency to think of an object only in terms of its typical use.
What is functional fixedness?
300
According to some theorists, if children are not exposed to language during this period, they will have great difficulty overcoming this language deficit.
What is the critical period?
400
This kind of repetition or rehearsal, moves information from short term memory into long term memory.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
400
Memory for general knowledge and facts about the world as well as memory for the rules of logic that are used to deduce other facts.
What is semantic memory?
400
The initial or momentary storage of information that lasts only an instant.
What is sensory memory?
400
This is a cognitive shortcut that may lead to a solution.
What is heuristics?
400
"I go mama," is an example of this kind of speech.
What is telegraphic speech?
500
The capacity of chunks in short term memory.
What is seven?
500
Memory for events that occur in a particular time, place or context.
What is episodic memory?
500
This type of memory is of a specific event that is so vivid, it is as if they represented a snapshot of the event.
What is a flashbulb memory?
500
The tendency for old patterns of problem solving to persist, which can affect your perceptions.
What is mental set?
500
"Look at the fishes, they swimmed in the tank," is an example of this language phenomenon.