memory
The ability to remember things you’ve experienced, imagined or learned
Sensory Registers
Prioritize stimuli to determine the order in attention will be given
Attention
Selection of info for further processing
STM
Capacity of seconds
Chunking
Grouping info to ease remembering
2 ways to encode STM
Phonologically and by shape/size
Rote Rehearsal
Saying something over and over again to lengthen STM or commit to LTM
LTM
Everything we know, permanent info
Verbatim memory
“Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday, Dear so and so. Happy Birthday to you!”
Serial Position Effect
Remembering the beginning and end, but not the middle
Elaborative Rehearsal
Linking new info to old info
Episodic Memory
Plays as a video file of memory
Semantic
Encyclopedic information
Procedural
Motor skills and habits that require no conscious thought
Emotional
Learned responses/feeling; sad angry, shamed
Priming
Giving hints to uncover buried explicit memory
Decay Theory
Memory is given little/no attention, so it degenerates and eventually disappears
Interference
Saying random numbers as a friend tries to remember your phone number, using rote rehearsal
Situational Factors
Remembering something by being in the same environment
State Dependent Memory
Memory based on mental state at time memory was formed
Reconstructed Memories
Memories that have been “rewritten” over time
Autobiographical Memory
Episodic memories of personal events; the type of memory that makes us human
Childhood Amnesia
Forgetting experiences that occur before age 2
Flashbulb Memory
Vivid Memory that never dulls; ex where you were on 9/11