Memory

Memory

1. Sensory Memory

   • Explicit Memory
     • Things you know, you know
     • Memories stored in hippocampus and frontal lobes

2. Implicit Memory

   • Things you just know
   • Memories stored in cerebellum and basal ganglia

3. Fleeting Sensory Memory

   • Short bits of information
   • Short term Memory
     • Brief pieces of information being stored before being stored in long term or forgotten
     • Long term Memory
       • a more permanent place to store memories

4. State Dependent Memory

   • Relies on state ex. someone who is drunk won't remember where he put his keys the night before

5. Mood Congruent Memory

   • mood is transferred with memory

6. Flashbulb Memory

   • A clear event that has emotional significance

7. Old age

   • growing old
   • Encoding failure
     • brain fails to encode a piece of information
   • Storage Decay
     • Memories slowly dissipate but levels off around 25 years
   • Retrieval failure
     • failure to retrieve a memory

8. Tricks to help Remember

   • Rehearse repeatedly
     • rehearse the material you are trying to remember
   • Use mnemonic devices
     • acronyms
   • Sleep more
     • while asleep our brain replays the days memories so they can be transferred from hippocampus to cortex