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Memory
Psychology
Term | Definition |
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Recall | Retrieval of information (fill-in-the-blank questions) |
Recognition | Identifying items previously learned (multiple choice) |
Relearn | Learning something more quickly when you learn it a second or late time |
Encoding | The process of getting information into your brain |
Storage | The process of retaining information |
Retrieval | The process of getting the information back out |
Parallel processing | Processing many things simultaneously |
Richard Atkinson & Robert Shiffrin (1968) Three stages | 1. Sensory memory 2. Short-term memory (encode through rehearsal) 3. Long-term memory (for later retrieval) |
Working memory | short-term memory that is concerned with immediate, conscious, perceptual and linguistic processing |
What are the two functions of working memory? | 1. Active processing of incoming visual-spatial and auditory information 2. focusing our spotlight of attention |
What information do we process automatically? | Implicit memory -procedural memory (how to ride a bike) |
Information processed automatically without conscious effort | -space -time -frequency |
Sensory memory | Feeds our active working memory, recording momentary images of scenes or echoes of sounds |
Iconic memory | A fleeting sensory memory of visual stimuli |
Echoic memory | Fleeting memory for auditory stimuli |
Explicit memory | -Effortful processing -declarative memories |
Implicit memory | -automatic processing -nondeclarative memories |