CLOA Key Terms

cognitive psychology

study of mental processes and complex behaviors

short-term memory (working memory)

stores important information that can be accessed easily; limited capacity; lasts about 12 seconds

long-term memory

information goes there from STM once rehearsed or attended to in some way; unlimited capacity; may last forever

semantic memory

factual knowledge

procedural memory

memories of how to do something (habits)

episodic memory

autobiographical memories of important events or experiences

facial recognition

ability to recall and recognize faces

prosopagnosia

disability where you are unable to remember faces

explicit memory

expressed through recollection

implicit memory

expressed through performance

central executive

decided how and when sub-systems are used; can focus, switch, divide attention; limited capacity; modality-free

episodic buffer

links information across domains to form memories with chronological ordering

visuospatial sketchpad

holds information about what we see; temporary storage/manipulation of spatial/visual information

articulatory control system

inner voice, can hold information in verbal form

phonological store

inner ear, can hold auditory memory traces; lasts 1.5-2 seconds if not rehearsed

articulatory suppression

participants asked to repeat word or number while memorizing list of words; accuracy of recall decreases due to overloading phonological loop

landry & bartling (2011)

using articulatory suppression to test the working memory model

multi-store model

memory is stored in 3 locations: sensory memory, STM, and LTM

sensory buffer

temporary store holding information briefly from the environment in the form it is received

milner (1966)

memory formation

longitudinal case study

data collected over many years (ex: Milner)

retrograde amnesia

inhibited memory of events before

anterograde amnesia

inhibited memory of events after

memory

the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information

cognition

thinking (perception, knowledge, problem-solving, judgement, language, memory)