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Memory
The persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
Recall
retrieving information that is not currently in your conscious awareness but that was learned at an earlier time
Recognition
Identifying items previously learned
Relearning
Learning something more quickly when you learn it a second or later time
Encoding
The process of getting information into the memory system
Storage
The process of retaining information over time
Retrieval
The process of getting information out of memory storage
Implicit Memories (Nondeclarative)
Involves retention of learned skills and classically conditions associations independent of conscious recollection
Where are implicit memories processed?
The cerebellum and basal ganglia
What does implicit memories remember?
Space, time, and frequency
Motor and cognitive skills
Classical conditioning
Explicit memories (declarative)
Involves the retention of facts and experiences that one can consciously know
Where are explicit memories processed?
In the hippocampus and frontal lobe
Semantic Memory
Facts and general knowledge
Episodic Memory
Personally experienced events
Procedural Memory
How to do something
Prospective Memory
Involves remembering to do something in the future
Long-term potentiation
An increase in a cell’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation
The neural basis for learning and memory
Working Memory
A newer understanding of short-term memory that adds conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory
The Central Executive System
A core component of working memory, controls attention and coordinates the phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad
Phonological Loop
Handling auditory information
Visuospatial Sketchpad
Processing visual and spatial information
Effortful Processing
How we encode explicit memories, which requires attention and conscious effort
Automatic Processing
How we encode implicit memories, which is the unconscious encoding of incidental informTion
Levels of processing
Structural, Phonemic, and Semantic
Structural
Look of a word
Phonemic
Sound of a word
Semantic
Meaning of a word
