Memory: Encoding, Storage & Retrieval

Learning that has persisted over time.

Information that is not currently in your conscious awareness and is brought into it.

<p>A process where you are able to sense something and you can remember sensing that stimuli before.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Amount of time saved when learning material for the second time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Getting information into the brain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Retaining encoded information over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Getting information out of the brain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sensory Memory -&gt; Short-Term (Working) Memory -&gt; Long-Term Memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Occurring unconsciously, skipping sensory memory and working memory. Also known as implicit memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Requiring attention, effort, and rehearsal. Also known as explicit memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Learning done throughout an extended period of time for a specific amount of time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Retrieval practice of need to know information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Encoding and recall of information that is personal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organizing information into familiar, meaningful chunks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organizing complex information by level of importance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Brief, lingering visual, auditory or physical sensation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Visual memory lasting no more than a few seconds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sounds and words can be recalled within 3 to 4 seconds of their occurrence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conscious, active processing of incoming sensory information and information retrieved from long-term memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of repetitively verbalizing or thinking about some piece of information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Magical number 7 (± 2).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Can store information indefinitely (unlimited duration) and can store an unlimited amount of information (unlimited capacity).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Classically conditioned memory, stored in the cerebellum.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Locomotive/physical memory, stored in the basal ganglia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contains episodic memory and semantic memories, is processed in the frontal lobe and saved in the hippocampus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inability to remember the past.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inability to form new memories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Improved recall of specific episodes or information when the information present at encoding and retrieval are the same.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Memory retrieval that is most efficient when an individual is in the same state of consciousness as they were when the memory was formed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Where current mood helps recall of mood related material.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Being more likely to remember information at the beginning (primacy) and end (recency) of a list.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prevention of information entering long-term memory, and thus the information is never stored to be able to be retrieved at a later date.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The course of forgetting is initially rapid, and then levels off.</p> Signup and view all the answers