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| Question | Answer |
| Encoding | information is changed or encoded so that it can be stored. This can be done visually, acoustically, or semantically. |
| storage | encoded information is stored in the memory so that it can be accessed at a later date |
| retrieval | accessing or retrieving the information from storage |
| duration | how long information can stay with that memory |
| capacity | how much information be stored with that memory |
| sensory memory | unencoded information received through |
| short-term memory | contains encoded information from the sensory memory. Its capacity is between 5 and 9 objects, and its duration is up to 30 seconds. |
| chunking | chunking information so it can be stored more easily |
| long term memory | the store house of all things in the memory that are not currently being used. The duration is up to a lifetime and the capacity is limitless |
| retroactive interference | occurs when new information interferences with the ability to recall old information |
| proactive interference | occurs when old information interferes with your ability to take in new information |
| amnesia | memory loss that is usually caused by physical injury to the brain; it can also be caused by a traumatic, emotional event |
| retrograde amnesia | is a form of amnesia where someone will be unable to recall events that occurred before the development of amnesia |
| anterograde amnesia | is a loss of memory of what happens after the event that caused the amnesia |
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