Psychology Exam #5
Memory's Three Basic Tasks
Encoding, storage, access and retrieval
Three Stages of Memory
Sensory, working, long term
Chunking
Organizing pieces of info into a smaller number of meaningful units
Sensory Memory
Sights, sounds, smells, texture for a fraction of a second
Working Memory
Attaches meaning to incoming stimuli
Working Memory Capacity
Seven items
Long Term Memory Components
Declaritive, procedural
Semantic Memory
Stores facts, impressions, and events
Procedural Memory
Motor skills, operant and classical conditioning
Personal Database
Semantic memory
Episodic Memory
Events, personal experience
Episode of Life
Episodic memory
Implicit Memory
Operates outside of awareness
Explicit Memory
Process with attention
Anterograde Amnesia
Inability to form new memories for new info
Reterograde Amnesia
Inability to remember info previously stored in memory
Mnemonics
Greek word meaning to remember
Prospective Memory
Remembering to remember
Retroactive Interference
New info prevents remembering old info
Proactive Interference
Old memory prevents remembering new info
Serial Position Curve
Ease of remembering is determined by position of items in a series
Recency Effect
Relative ease of remembering last or more recent items
Persistance
Memory problem when unwanted memories cant be put out of mind
Bias
Attitude, belief, emotion, or experience that distorts memory
Misattribution
Memory fault when memories are retrieved but associated with wrong time, place, or person