Human Memory

Human Memory

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A cognitive structure; a network of associations that organises and guides an individual's perceptions.

• mnemonics

• Long Term Memory

• Encoding

• Schema

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The process of getting information back from the memory storage is

• Next-in-line effect

• encoding

• storage

• retreival

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Information can be held in this torage bank for 30 seconds without rehearsal

• visual memory

• Short term memory

• sensory memory

• long term memory

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Organising items into familiar, manageable units

• Mnemonic

• Elaborate Rehearsal

• Chunking

• Maintenance Rehearsal

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Magic number 7+-2 referes to storage capacity of

• Implicit Memory

• Short Term Memory

• Sensory Memory

• Long Term Memory

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Human capacity for storing long term memories is essentially

• roughly equal to seven units of information

• enhanced through hypnosis

• essentially unlimited

• typically much greater in adults than younger children

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Fading away of Memory

• Amnesia

• Decay

• Interference

• Repression

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Identifying objects encountered in past

• Recall

• Rehearsal

• Retrieval

• Recognition

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Information can be held in this torage bank for 30 seconds without rehearsal

• visual memory

• Short term memory

• sensory memory

• long term memory

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All concepts, ideas and rules of logic are stored in ____ LTM.

• Semantic

• Episodic

• Sensory

• Declarative

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Maintenance rehearsal helps in expanding LTM

• True

• False

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Incoming Information first enters in

• STM

• LTM

• Sensory Memory

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Information Processing Stage Model was proposed by

• Bartlett

• Atkinson and Shiffrin

• Baddeley

• Craik and Lockart

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The retention /saving of information over a long period of time

• encoding

• storage

• retrieval

• rehearsal

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The processing of information into the memory system

• encoding

• storage

• retrieval

• automatic processing