Psych 111 exam 2: memory

Order of memory

Encoding > storage > retrieval

misinformation effect

people with misinformation can create false memory. ex: stop / yield sign

Source amnesia

Can’t remeber where memory stems from

Verbatim memory

ability to recall memory in the same way

memory storage

Capacity to maintain information over a certain period of tiem

Models of memory (3)

Sensory, short term, long term 

Sensory memory

Fleeting less than a second memory that is extremely vivid

Short term memory (working memory)

storing 4-7 items between 1 second to 1 minuet

Long term memory

lasting years but less vivid

Retrieving information (5) 

Priming: pervious exposure to stimuli enhances person’t ability to remember stimuli when presented again 

Recency effect: last items on list is easier to recall 

Primary effect: first items on list is easier to recall

Chucking: Group similar things together 

Rehearsing: Saying it over and over again

Explicit memory (declarative) (2)

memory you consciously know and can talk about 

episodic: event / personal experience

semantic: general knowledge

Implicit memory (non-declarative) (3)

memory that happen without conscious awareness

Procedural: skill or habit

Priming: connection of one stimulus to another ex: bread and butter

Classical conditioning

2 type of long term memory

Explicit and implicit memory

Why we lose memory (2 theory 2 other)

Trace decay theory: use it or lose it

Interference theory: new information interferes with old

Amnesia: brain damage or trauma

Intentional forgetting

2 type of amnesia

Anterograde amnesia: inability to transfer information from short to long term (can’t make new memories)

Retrograde amnesia: can’t remember past but can form new

Infantile amnesia 

inability to remember memories before 3-3.5 years of age 

Theories of infantile amnesia (5)

Repression

Neurological immaturity

Lack of memory availabilities

lack of ability to tell stories

lack sense of self

deferred imitation

child copies what they saw earlier even though original person / event is not longer there