Memory and Encoding

Flashcards covering encoding types, sensory memory, and memory models from the lecture notes.

Structural encoding

Encoding based on appearance.

Phonemic encoding

Encoding based on sound.

Semantic encoding

Encoding based on meaning.

Levels of processing

Concept stating that deeper processing yields a stronger memory.

Encoding failure

Occurs when information never gets stored.

Sensory memory

Very brief storage of sensory information.

Iconic memory

Visual sensory memory.

Echoic memory

Auditory sensory memory.

Multi-store model

A memory model structured as: sensory → short term → long term.

Proactive

Old interfere w new

Retroactive

New interfere w old

Inadequate retrieval queue

Don’t have the right clue to access memory

Forgetting curve

Forgetting happens rapidly at first, then slows

Misinformation effect

misleading information changes your memory

Source amnesia

remember the information but forget where it came from

Constructive memory

memories are reconstructed and can change

Imagination inflation

• imagining something makes you more likely to believe it happened

Repression

• unconscious blocking of distressing memories

Prospective memory

• remembering to do something in the future

Metacognition

• Thinking about and being aware of your own thinking and learning.