Chapter 7 : Memory

Chapter 7 : Memory

1. Three key processes

   • 1) Encoding (getting information in)
     • Involves forming a memory code
     • Four primary types
       • Visual
         • Acoustic
           • Elaborative
             • Semantic
   • 2) Storage (maintaining it)
     • Involves maintaining encoded information in memory over time
   • 3) Retrieval (getting it out)
     • Involves recovering information from memory stores

2. Types of Memory

   • Sensory Memory
     • preserves information for a brief time
   • Short-Term Memory
     • limited capacity store that can preserve information for up to about twenty seconds
     • rehearsal
       • maintenance
       • elaborative
   • Long-Term Memory
     • unlimited capacity store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time
     • Several different types of LTM
       • explicit and implicit memory
         • declarative and procedural memory
           • retrospective and prospective memory
       • episodic and semantic memory

3. Systems Of Memory

4. Memory Lapse

   • Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve
     • graphs retention and forgetting over time
   • Seven sins of memory
     • transcience
     • absent-mindness
     • blocking
     • misattribution
     • suggestibility
     • bias
     • persistance
   • Retrograde amnesia
     • loss of memories for events that occured prior to the onset of amnesia
   • Anterograde amnesia
     • loss of memories for events that occur after the onset of amnesia