It's All Relative
What's New?
Remember When
Did you say that?
Whatever else
100
Permanently holds unlimited amount of information.
What is Long Term Memory?
100
Memory system that holds information for 1 to 2 seconds prior to processing.
What is Sensory Memory?
100
Retrieval of information to answer an essay question uses this.
What is Recall?
100
Part of the memory system that stores limited amounts of information for up to 18 seconds.
What is Short Term Memory?
100
Retrieval of information to answer a multiple choice question uses this.
What is Recognition?
200
Maximum number of items you can recall perfectly after one presentation, usually 5-9.
What is Immediate Memory Span?
200
Memory of a specific event that happened while you were there.
What is Episodic Memory?
200
Representations of an experience by it's general meaning.
What is Semantic?
200
How long information stays in short-term memory if it is not rehearsed.
What is 18 seconds?
200
Stimuli that help people retrieve information from LTM.
What is Retrieval Cues?
300
Make recognition tasks easier than recall tasks.
What is Retrieval Cues?
300
Ability to retrieve some knowledge about a word, but not the word itself.
What is Tip-of-the-tongue?
300
When you can't give the answer, but you can retrieve enough info to determine that the answer is stored in your memory.
What is Feeling of Knowing?
300
Illustrated by the story of Pi.
What is Chunking?
300
Knowing how to do something.
What is Procedural memory?
400
Is illustrated by a statement that starts out "I remember when..."
What is Episodic memory?
400
Saying Matt Brown's occupation is a farmer.
What is Constructive memory?
400
When you start a sentence with "I know that..."
What is Semantic Memory?
400
Stage of memory that holds 5-9 pieces of information if it is not rehearsed or elaborated.
What is Short Term Memory?
400
Remembering 5 to 9 items on a grocery list of 15 items that you did not write down.
What is Immediate Memory Span?
500
How long information stays in Sensory Memory
What is 1 to 2 seconds?
500
Capacity of Long Term Memory
What is unlimited?
500
Types of mnemonics.
What are acrostics and acronyms?
500
It is better to study in the same room you will take the test in.
What is Context Dependence?
500
Explains why you forget something that you have not rehearsed, elaborated or retrieved for a long time.
What is Decay?
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