Psychology

Psychology

1. Memory

   • DEFINITIONS
     • Encoding- changing information so it can be stored
     • Storage- Holding information in the memory system
     • Multi-store- The idea that information passes through a series of memory stores
     • Sensory Store- holds information recieved from the senses for a very short period of time.
     • Short term store- holds approximently seven chuks of information for a limited amount of time
     • Long-Term Store- Holds a vast amount of information for a very long period of time
     • Recency Effect- The first information received later is recalled better than earlier information
     • Primary Effect- The first information received is recalled better than the subsequesnt information
     • Reconstructive memory- Altering our recollection of things so that they make more sense to us.
     • Structural Processing- Thinking about the physical apperance of words to be learnt.
     • Phonetic processing- thinking about the sound of words to be learnt.
     • Semantic processing- thinking about the meaning of words to be learnt
     • Levels of processing- the depth at which information is thourght about when trying to learn about
     • Interference- things that we have learnt that make it difficult to recall other information that we have learnt
     • Retroactive interference- when information we have recently learnt hinders our ability to recall information we have learnt previously
     • Proactive interference- when information we have already learnt hinders our ability to recall new information
     • Context- The general setting or environmental in which activities happen.
     • Anterograde amnesia- Being unable to learn new information after suffering brain damage.
     • Hippo campus- A brain structure that is crucial for memory
     • Retrograde amnesia- Loss of memory for events that happened before brain damage occurred