Chapter 12: Learning, Memory, and Amnesia (Part 1)

sensory memory:

(brief/sustained) retention

brief

short-term memory:

normally holds around _____ pieces

used to hold information retrieved from _____ - _____ memory for _____ use

information is either _____ into long-term memory or _____ forever

7, long-term, temporary, transferred, lost

short-term memory- baddeley’s 3 components:

phonological loop- holding information related to _____

visuospatial sketch pad- holding _____ images

central executive- focusing and division of _____ 

speech, mental, attention

long-term memory:

hypothesized to be _____ in capacity

short-term memories are _____ with existing memories (memory _____)

unlimited, integrated, consolidation

contents of long-term memory:

implicit (_____) memory- knowing “_____”

explicit (_____) memory- semantic (_____ knowledge) and episodic (_____ recollection)

procedural, how, declarative, general, personal

implicit (non-declarative) memory:

_____ learning (cannot explicitly receive)

performance/behavior changed by _____

often (preserved/ lost) in persons with amnesia

ex. learning the words to a song

unconscious, experience, preserved

explicit (declarative) memory:

_____ memory (retrieval)

ability to _____ what one knows, to _____ the time, place, and circumstances 

often (preserved/lost) in amnesia

conscious, recount, detail, lost

explicit memory- semantic memory:

general knowledge, including _____, _____, concepts, and propositions

ex. recalling the capital of france

facts, rules

explicit memory- episodic memory:

_____ experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred

_____ episodic memory is impaired in memory disorders

ex. remembering high school prom

personally, recent

encoding memories:

in implicit tasks, the person has a(n) (passive/active) role; (does/does not) require conscious recall (ex. typing on a keyboard)

in explicit tasks, the person has a(n) (passive/active) role; (does/ does not) require conscious recall (ex. studying)

passive, does not, active, does