Types of Memory
This type of memory briefly holds incoming sensory information before it is either dismissed or transferred to short-term memory.
What is sensory memory?
This type of memory retrieval allows you to identify information after experiencing it again, such as a multiple choice test.
What is Recognition?
This model of memory compares our mind to a computer in a series of three stages known as encoding, storage, and retrieval.
What is the Information Processing Model?
The term for someone who loses all or most of their memory.
What is Amnesia?
This person pioneered research on eyewitness testimony and demonstrated the malleability of memory through the misinformation effect.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
This type of long-term memory involves the storage of general knowledge, facts, and concepts that are not tied to specific personal experiences.
What is semantic memory?
This area of the brain is associated with memory retrieval and procedural memory (creating and maintaining habits).
What is Basal Ganglia?
The type of processing that occurs when we attach meaning to information and create associations.
What is Deep Processing?
An example of this type of memory is when visiting your old elementary school, you begin to remember your classes and friends.
What is Context Dependent Memory?
The number was George A. Miller’s magic number.
What is the number 7 (plus or minus 2)?
This type of memory is responsible for storing information about how to perform skilled actions, such as riding a bike or typing on a keyboard.
What is procedural memory?
Term for the Feeling that a memory is available but not quite retrievable
What is Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon?
Sasha started her first day of kindergarten 7 weeks ago. When she walked into the classroom on the first day, she saw a poster on the wall that said, “You are beautiful, smart, and strong.” She often repeats this to herself at home. Her ability to repeat the words without being cued is known as this:
What is recall?
The term for older memories that interfere with the retrieval of new memories.
What is Proactive Interference?
This psychologist developed the theory of memory reconstruction, highlighting how memories can be distorted or altered by post-event information.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
This type of memory refers to the unconscious recall of information and is often demonstrated through this phenomenon, in which previous experiences influence behavior without conscious awareness.
What is implicit memory?
A beneficial study strategy that helps retrieve information easily through including breaks between study periods.
What is Distributed Practice?
This part of the information processing model is responsible for putting information into the memory system from sensory input.
What is encoding?
Your teacher asks the call what everyone had for breakfast last Saturday. She calls on you and you say that you can’t remember. This is a great example of this theory.
What is Inference Theory?
The process proposed by George A. Miller, involving organizing information into smaller, meaningful units to enhance memory.
What is Chunking?
This type of memory refers to vivid, detailed memories of significant events that are emotionally charged and are often recalled with high confidence, despite the possibility of inaccuracies over time.
What is flashbulb memory?
Memories that are triggered by a person’s current mood because of the relationship to memories formed when you were in a similar state.
What is State Dependent Memory?
Sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory are part of this model of memory:
What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin Three Stage Model of Memory
This effect is responsible for us being able to recall the first and last few words of a speech or list of words.
What is Serial Position Effect?
This psychologist conducted groundbreaking experiments on the forgetting curve and introduced the spacing effect, suggesting that information is better retained when learning sessions are spaced out over time.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?