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16 Cards in this Set
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What is memory? |
Being able to take information from your environment and storing it to recall later. |
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What is capacity? |
Amount of information that can be stored in your memory. |
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What is duration? |
How long you can hold information in your brain. |
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acoustically encoding |
stored as sound ( cat bat rat) |
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visually encoded |
stored as an image |
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semantically encoded |
stored based on the meaning of something |
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What are the three types of memory? |
Sensory register, LTM, STM |
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Describe the sensory register? |
Temporarily stores info from our senses. If attention is not paid disappears through spontaneous decay. Limited capacity, limited duration. Info coded based on the sense eg auditory,visual or tactile. |
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Describe the STM? |
Limited capacity and limited duration. Coding usually through sound. |
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Describe the LTM? |
Unlimited capacity, permanent, semantic coding (meaning of info) |
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3 types of LTM? |
Episodic, semantic and procedural |
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what is episodic memory? |
Personal events, it includes memory of the event, people, objects and behavior involved time stamped. Retrieved quickly and we are aware we are doing so. |
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what is semantic memory? |
Stores facts and knowledge that we've learnt. Recalled deliberately but aren't time stamped. Less personal and more facts. Such as capital cities. |
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what is procedural memory? |
Knowledge of how to do things. We recall these memories without searching for them. Typically learnt through repetition and practice. EG reading, walking or driving. |
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If you cant retrieve a memory it is... |
Forgotten. |
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Forgetting info in the STM? |
Info is no lon |
