Memory - correct answer ✔✔The process by which we encode, store and retrieve information.
Three Basic Processes - correct answer ✔✔encoding, storage, retrieval
Encoding: - correct answer ✔✔initial recording of information
Storage - correct answer ✔✔Information saved for future use
Retrieval - correct answer ✔✔Recovery of stored information
Two forms of retrieval - correct answer ✔✔recall and recognition
Recall: - correct answer ✔✔The person has to deliberately search through memory for a particular piece
of information and report it, if found.
Recognition - correct answer ✔✔The information to be retrieved is actually presented to the person,
after which the person reports whether he remembers it or not.
Three Systems of Memory - correct answer ✔✔sensory, short term, long term
Sensory Memory - correct answer ✔✔refers to the initial, momentary storage of information, lasting
only an instant.
Iconic memory - correct answer ✔✔information from the visual system (sight)
Echoic memory - correct answer ✔✔auditory information coming from the ears (sound)
, Sensory memory - correct answer ✔✔able to store information for only a very short time. (seconds only)
Short term memory - correct answer ✔✔holds information for 15 to 25 seconds and stores it according
to its meaning rather than as mere sensory stimulation
repetitive rehearsal - correct answer ✔✔information is retained in short term memory
Forgetting - correct answer ✔✔happens within about 15 to 25 seconds unless it is transferred to LTM.
Chunk - correct answer ✔✔A meaningful grouping of stimuli that can be stored as a unit in short term
memory.
Rehearsal: - correct answer ✔✔The repetition of information that has entered short term memory.
Long Term Memory - correct answer ✔✔The Final Storehouse
ELABORATIVE Rehearsal - correct answer ✔✔occurs when the information is considered and organized
in some fashion.
Elaborative rehearsal - correct answer ✔✔is a memory technique that involves thinking about the
meaning of the term to be remembered, as opposed to simply repeating the word to yourself over and
over.
types of long term memory - correct answer ✔✔episodic, semantic, procedural
Procedural memory - correct answer ✔✔memory of procedures and skills such as swimming, driving, or
typing.
. Declarative memory - correct answer ✔✔memory of various sorts of knowledge
Semantic memory - correct answer ✔✔memory of facts (e.g., names of the provinces, countries, etc)
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