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