Memory and forgetting

Information never entered into long term memory

Forgotten information

Decrease in performance of learned behaviour following a retention interval

<p>Period where learning or practice of the behaviour does not occur</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How much can we remember</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using hints, prompts to increase the likelihood of a behaviour to occur. Prompts are stimuli that are not present during training</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The amount of relearning required which depends on how much we can remember</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Identify material that was previously learned</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Checking again after some time</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Flattening of a generalization gradient</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The more we learned something, the more slowly it will be forgotten</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Retention is better with rehearsal of 64 times than 8 times</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Over learning can be very powerful</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Acquiring and transforming information into memory</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A strategy that determines how information is processed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Repetition of information verbally to keep it active in STM and transfer it to LTM</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Semantic elaboration of information</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Creating visual images of material to remember easily</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Acoustic, visual, tactile, and semantic</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Useful for abstract materials which are very difficult to assign meanings</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shallow which is little attention to detail and Deep which is close attention to detail</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Information is better remembered if it is generated instead of simply read</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Degree of learning, length of retention interval, prior learning, subsequent learning, change in context</p> Signup and view all the answers