Memory Test Trick 1

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Memory

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The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.

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Recall

Back 2

You must retrieve the information from your memory.

Ex. fill in the blank or essay tests

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Recognition

Back 3

You must identify the target from possible targets.

Ex. multiple choice tests

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Encoding

Back 4

The processing of information into the memory system.

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Storage

Back 5

The coding of material overtime.

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Retrieval

Back 6

The accessing of information from memory storage.

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Sensory memory

Back 7

A split second holding tank for all sensory information.

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Iconic memory

Back 8

Memory relating to vision.

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Echoic memory

Back 9

Memory relating to hearing.

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Sensory registers

Back 10

Entry points for raw information from the senses.

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Visual image

Back 11

Icon

Disappears very rapidly from our visual registers.

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Auditory "image"

Back 12

Echo

Fades more slowly than visual information.

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Attention

Back 13

Selection of some incoming information for futher processing.

The process of selective looking, listening, smelling, tasting, and feeling.

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Short Term Memory (STM)

Back 14

Working memory; briefly stores and processes selected information from the sensory registers.

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Primary tasks of STM

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1: store new information briefly

2: work on that and other information

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Length of time STM holds information

Back 16

1.5 to 2 seconds

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STM holds about _______________________ items for about 20 seconds

Back 17

7 plus or minus 2

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Chunking

Back 18

Organizing items into familiar manageable units.

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Mnemonic devices

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Techniques a person can use to help their ability to remember things.

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Rehearsal

Back 20

Process of repeatedly saying something or thinking about a piece of information.

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Decay theory

Back 21

Explains that the passage of time causes the strength of memory to decrease.

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Interference theory

Back 22

Holds that old information gets mixed up with or pushed easily aside by other newer information.

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Rote rehearsal

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Retaining information in STM simply by repeating it.

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Elaborative rehearsal

Back 24

The linking of new information in STM to familiar information stored in LTM.