Memory (encoding, storage, retrieval)

iconic and echoic

2 kinds of sensory memory

implicit and explicit

2 types of memory

you can't pay attention to everything therefor you won't encode everything

Selective type of encoding

explicit memory is a memory that can be intentionally and consciously recalled. implicit memory is experimental or functional form of memory that cannot be consciously recalled.

What is the difference between an implicit and an explicit memory?

memory for the events of ones life

autobiographical memory

encoding is the first step to the information processing model. encoding is taking a piece of information and storing it.

encoding

the ability to remember the episodes of our lives

episodic memory

(knowledge) examples: memories of direction, meaning of words, easy knowledge to transfer

explicit

vivid personal memories of receiving news of some momentous event

flashbulb memory

The hippocampus has a unique shape, similar to that of a horseshoe. It not only assists with the storage of long term memories, but is also responsible for the memory of the location of objects or people.

hippocampus

(skills) examples: riding a bike, driving a car, knowledge you can't just simply give to someone

implicit

being able to access stored information

retrieval

think of a field of flowers, and you making your road... then 10 years later the same space won't have the same traces

memory traces

storing the information and being able to obtain the information later on

storage

sensory: working: the thing you're looking at/working on the moment long term memory: information that you don't need right now but its there

storage: sensory, working, and long term memory

like for example when someone asks you something and you say "what" but then remember the question

echoic

The three stages of remembering are encoding, storage and retrieval. Encoding is the initial learning of information, storage refers to information over time, and retrieval is the ability to access information when you need it.

List and briefly describe the three stages of remembering.

the process occurring after encoding that is believed to stabilize memory traces

consolidation

the process in which unusual events will be recalled and recognized better than uniform events

distinctiveness