Memory

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  • Created by: Job Lee
  • Created on: 11-03-19 01:53
Processing
Understanding the knowledge
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Input
Storage memories/images into the brain
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Storage
In memory
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Encoding
Putting information that you know into your brain
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Acoustic encoding
Storing sound in our memory system
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Visual encoding
Storing something that is seen in our memory system
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Semantic encoding
Storing the meaning of information in our memory system
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Output
Recalled memories/images from the brain
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Retrieval
The recall of stored memories
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Short-term memory
Memory storage system that has a limited time
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Long-term memory
Memory storage system that has an unlimited time
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Duration
The length of time information can be held in memory
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Capacity
The ability to contain or the amount that can be contained or absorbed
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Rehearse
Repeating information over and over again
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Displacement
The length of time information can be stored in short-term and long-term memory
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Interference
When new information overwrites older information
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Subjective
Based on personal opinion or feeling
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Sensory memory (sensory register)
A very short-term memory short for information being processed by the sense organ
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Attention
Focus on a certain sensory information
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Modality free
Not linked to a specific type of sensory information
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Trigram
A set of three letters such as GPX that makes a meaningless string of letters rather than a word
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Primacy
Recall words at the beginning of a list when asked to remember it
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Recency
Recall words at the end of a list when asked to remember it
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Iconic memory
The sensory register for visual information
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Storage memories/images into the brain

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Input

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In memory

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Card 4

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Putting information that you know into your brain

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Card 5

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Storing sound in our memory system

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