Memory: Encoding, Storage, Retrieval and Types of Memory flashcards

Question 1

What is memory, in terms of processes?

Accepted Answer

The set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time.

Question 2

Which memory function is the input of information into the memory system?

Accepted Answer

Encoding

Question 3

Which memory function is the retention of encoded information?

Accepted Answer

Storage

Question 4

Which memory function is getting information out of memory and back into awareness?

Accepted Answer

Retrieval

Question 5

Which kind of encoding takes work and attention, as when you learn test material?

Accepted Answer

Effortful processing

Question 6

What is the encoding of words and their meaning called?

Accepted Answer

Semantic encoding

Question 7

What is the encoding of images called?

Accepted Answer

Visual encoding

Question 8

What is the encoding of sounds, words in particular, called?

Accepted Answer

Acoustic encoding

Question 9

Which type of encoding did Craik and Tulving find best for verbal information?

Accepted Answer

Semantic encoding

Question 10

What is the self-reference effect?

Accepted Answer

Better memory for information that relates to oneself than for material with less personal relevance.

Question 11

Who first proposed the three-stage model of memory storage in 1968?

Accepted Answer

Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin

Question 12

In the Atkinson-Shiffrin model, what are the three stages of memory, in order?

Accepted Answer

Sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory.

Question 13

Which stage of memory is the storage of brief sensory events such as sights, sounds and tastes?

Accepted Answer

Sensory memory

Question 14

Which stage of memory is a temporary storage system that processes incoming sensory memory?

Accepted Answer

Short-term memory

Question 15

Which stage of memory is the continuous storage of information?

Accepted Answer

Long-term memory

Question 16

What is elaborative rehearsal?

Accepted Answer

Linking new information you are trying to learn to information you already know.

Question 17

What does the levels of processing hypothesis say?

Accepted Answer

The deeper you think about something, the better you remember it.

Question 18

Who proposed the working memory model in 1974?

Accepted Answer

Baddeley and Hitch

Question 19

In the working memory model, which part supervises the flow of information to and from the short-term systems?

Accepted Answer

The central executive

Question 20

In the working memory model, which three short-term systems does the central executive control?

Accepted Answer

The visuospatial sketchpad, the episodic buffer and the phonological loop.

Question 21

What are the two types of long-term memory?

Accepted Answer

Explicit memory and implicit memory.

Question 22

Which type of long-term memory is what we consciously try to remember, recall and report?

Accepted Answer

Explicit memory

Question 23

What is another name for explicit memory, because it can be put into words?

Accepted Answer

Declarative memory

Question 24

Into which two kinds is explicit memory divided?

Accepted Answer

Episodic memory and semantic memory.

Question 25

Which type of memory is information about events we have personally experienced?

Accepted Answer

Episodic memory

Question 26

Which type of memory is knowledge about words, concepts and language-based facts?

Accepted Answer

Semantic memory

Question 27

Which type of long-term memory is not part of our consciousness?

Accepted Answer

Implicit memory

Question 28

Which implicit memory stores the way to do something, such as skilled actions?

Accepted Answer

Procedural memory

Question 29

What is priming?

Accepted Answer

Exposure to a stimulus affecting the response to a later stimulus.

Memory: Encoding, Storage, Retrieval and Types of Memory flashcards

The cards

How this deck was checked

Sources

Memory: Encoding, Storage, Retrieval and Types of Memory flashcards

The cards

How this deck was checked

Sources

More free decks

Human body

Periodic table

Space & physics