Memory Key Terms

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Short-Term Memory
a temporary store where small amounts of information can be kept for brief periods. It is a fragile store and information can be easily lost
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Long-Term Memory
a permanent store where limitless amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time
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Capacity
the amount of information that can be held in memory at any one timeD
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Duration
the length of time that memories can be held
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Encoding
the way in which information is represented in the memory store e.g. by sound, meaning or image
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Sensory Memory
a set of limited capacity, modality-specific stores that hold information for a very brief period of time
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Displacement
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
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Interference
a type of forgetting where information stored in LTM is confused with similar information
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Free Recall
a way of testing memory where participants can recall items from a list in any order
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Digit Span Technique
a way of measuring the capacity of STM. Participants have to repeat back strings of digits in order of presentation
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Serial Recall
a way of testing STM where participants are required to recall items in the order of presentation
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Pseudo-Word
a combination of letters that sounds as though it could be an English word but actually does not exist (e.g. nym)
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a permanent store where limitless amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time

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Long-Term Memory

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the amount of information that can be held in memory at any one timeD

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the length of time that memories can be held

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the way in which information is represented in the memory store e.g. by sound, meaning or image

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