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| 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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