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Question | Answer |
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What is memory? | the process by which we recollect prior experiences and information and skills learned in the past. |
3 kinds of memory? | Explicit episodic, explicit semantic, implicit |
Explicit episodic | memory of a specific event, includes flashback memories |
Explicit semantic | General knowledge may not remember where we learned it |
Implicit | Skills and procedures learned |
3 processes of memory | Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval |
Encoding | Translate information into a form in which it can be stored |
Storage | maintaining the encoded information over a period of time. |
Retrieval | Locating stored info and return it to conscious thought. |
3 stages of memory | Sensory, Mental images, sound memory, short term memory |
Sensory | Immediate sensory acknowledgement of information if you want to keep it you have to do something with it quick. |
Mental Images | Use mental pictures you form in your head they are held in the iconic memory for a fraction of a second they are "snapshots" and very accurate |
Sound Memory | echos can be remembered echoic imagery can last for a few seconds |
Short Term Memory | Even noting iconic and echoic memory you transfer it into your short term memory |