A permanent store where limitless amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.
Long-Term Memory
1 of 10
A temporary store where small amounts of information can be kept for a brief period of time before becoming easily lost.
Short-Term Memory
2 of 10
A Set of limited Capacity, Modality-specific stores that hold information for a very brief period of time.
Sensory Memory
3 of 10
The amount of information that can be held in memory at any one time.
Capacity
4 of 10
The length of time that memories can be held.
Duration
5 of 10
the way in which information is represented in the memory store, e.g. by sound, meaning or image.
Encoding
6 of 10
A type of forgetting where the items currently in the limited capacity STM are pushed out before being transferred to LTM to make room for incoming items.
Displacement
7 of 10
A type of forgetting where information stored in LTM is confused with similar information.
Interference
8 of 10
A way of testing memory where participants can recall items from a list in any order.
Free Recall
9 of 10
A way of testing STM where participants are required to recall items in the order of presentation.
Serial Recall
10 of 10
Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
A temporary store where small amounts of information can be kept for a brief period of time before becoming easily lost.
Back
Short-Term Memory
Card 3
Front
A Set of limited Capacity, Modality-specific stores that hold information for a very brief period of time.
Back
Card 4
Front
The amount of information that can be held in memory at any one time.
Comments
No comments have yet been made