Memory

Memory

Information store by the brain

Recall

Receiving info from your non-conscious awareness

Recognition

Identifying things learned previously

Relearning

Learning something a second time

Encoding

Process to get info in our brain

Storage

Process of retaining information

Retrieval

Getting the information back out

Parallel processing

Processing things simultaneous

Semsory memory

Memory of the senses

Short-term memory

Short term memory storage, limited space

Long-term memory

Long-term memory storage unlimited space

Working memory

Actively processing, Keeps your train of thought

Explicit memories

Information we can consciously know

Automatic processing

Processing that happens without conscious effort

Implicit memory

Produced by automatic processing, retention of learned skills

Iconic memory

Momentary remembering of a visual memory

Echoic memory

Momentary remembering of an auditory memory

Chunking

Organizing memory into familiar and manageable units

mnomics

Visual memory aids

Spacing effect

Information is retained better when it is learned spaced out

Testing effect

Enhances memory by making people retrieve information

Sematic memory

Explicit memories that are facts and general knowledge

Episodic memory

Explicit memories of experienced events

Hippocampus

Helps process explicit memories

Memory consolidation

Storage of long-term memory in the brains “basement“

Flashbulb memories

A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment

Shallow process

Processing a verbal information on a very basic level appearance or sound of words

Deep processing

Processing a verbal information based on the meaning of the word

Long-term potentiation

Increased efficiency of potential nerve firing

Information processing model

Says our brain is like computers

Ebbinghaus retention curve

Findings that the more times someone, the less time it takes them to relearn it

Prospective memory

Remembering to perform or recall a planned action

The three stage processing model of memory

Encoding storage retrieval

Mood congruent memory

Tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one’s current mood

State dependent memory

What is learned in one state is better remembered in that state

Infantile amnesia

Don’t remember stuff as a baby

Antergrade amnesia

Inability to recall new memories

Retrograde amnesia

Inability to remember old memories

Proactive interference

Older information interferes with the recall of newer information

Retroactive interference

Learning new information interferes with the recall of older information (me)

Repression

Defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness… anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories

Misinformation effect

Incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event

Source amnesia

The wrong source of an event “i heard this on the news” (heard it from tiktok)