Types of Memory

Types of Memory

1. SHORT - TERM MEMORY

   • It is everything you are thinking of at the current moment.
     • when reading a sentence, you place the beginning of the sentence in mind so as to understand the rest of the sentence.

2. SENSORY MEMORY

   • Shortest term element of memory (<1sec)
     • the ability to look at something and remember what it looked like with just a second of observation

3. LONG - TERM MEMORY

   • EXPLICIT MEMORY
     • DECLARATIVE MEMORY
       • EPISODIC MEMORY
         • represents our memory of experiences and specific events in time
       • SEMANTIC MEMORY
         • is the recollection of facts gathered from the time we are young
     • It is in this memory where we store memories of fact.
   • IMPLICIT MEMORY
     • PROCEDURAL MEMORY
       • It is a memory of skills and how to do things.
       • particularly movement of body parts and use of objects or machines.
       • is stored and encoded by the cerebellum, putamen, caudate nucleus and the motor cortex- all of which are involved in motor control.
     • Your ability to recall addresses, locations of parking garages, intersection names
   • This is a process of storing unlimited amounts of information over long period of time.
   • It has an unlimited capacity and it is relatively permanent
   • Chances of retrieval are dependent on encoding process
   • Its accuracy may be distorted over time