Memory

Memory

1. Retrieval: Recalling a memory

   • Recall: Remembering without cues, leads to...
     • Recognition: Identifying information, leads to...
       • Relearning: Brain re-learns the information

2. Memory Errors

   • Amnesia: Long-term memory loss
   • Suggestibility: Outside sources lead to false memories
   • Misinformation Effect: Incorrect info altering memories

3. Encoding: Turning sensory input into information

   • Automatic Processing: Unconscious encoding
   • Effortful processing: Encoding with thought
   • Semantic encoding: Based on applied meaning
   • Visual Encoding: Based on images
   • Acoustic encoding: Based on sound
   • Amygdala: Regulates emotion and helps encoding process
     • Encoding Failure: Memory was never encoded

4. Storage: Creation of a memory

   • Short Term Memory: 15-30 second storage
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   • Long Term Memory: Short term memories become permanent
     • Rehearsal: Repeating information to remember
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     • Explicit Memories: Consciously remembered
     • Implicit Memories: Not in consciousness
   • Sensory Memory: Brief storage of sensory info
   • Hippocampus: Transfers learning to long-term memories