Question | Answer |
Retrieval(output) | Finding encoded information that we have stored in our brains. |
Retroactive interference | When new learning interferes with previously stored and processed material. |
Schemas | An internalized mental representation that contains all the information that a person has about an object or event. |
Semantic processing | Processing things in relation to what they mean. |
Sensory buffer | It picks up information that is attended to and sends it to short term memory. (Atkinson and Shiffrin) (1972) |
Short term memory | A temporary place for storing information. |
Storage | Where we keep information. |
Structural processing | Processing things in relation to the way they look. |
Brain Damage | Deterioration of brain structures. |
Cue dependency | To retrieve memory's there must be a a specific similarity to the time the memory was formed. (State and Context) |
Decay | Fading of information in long term memory. |
Displacement | Loss of short term memory. (First in, first out) |
Duration | The amount of time material lasts for in different stores of memory. |
Encoding(input) | Taking in information through our senses. |
Hierarchies | Outlining information in a structured way. |
Hippocampus | A region of the brain linked to memory processing and storage. |
Imagery | A memory technique that encodes information as pictures. |
Long term memory | A permanent store with unlimited capacity and duration. (Episodic, Semantic and Procedural) |
Method of loci | A memory technique of associating items to be learned with physical locations. |
Mind maps | Diagrams that use organisation and imagery to encode information and retrieve it more easily. |
Organisation | A memory technique that encodes information in a certain way. |
Phonemic processing | Processing things in relation to how they sound. |
Proactive interference | When new information is forgotten due to old information interfering. |
Rehersal | Repetition of information in short term memory resulting in long term memory. |
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