Yr 11: Cognition

Preserves brief sensory impression for only a fraction of a second.

• Sensory Register

• Working Memory

• Short-Term Memory

• Long-Term Memory

Combines and organizing pieces of info into smaller units.

• Rehearsal

• Chunking

• Perserverance

• Encoding

Location and recovery of info from memory

• Encoding
• Storage
• Rehearsal
• Retrieval

Information that is reviewed to keep it from fading.

• Chunking
• Maintenance Rehearsal
• Storage
• Retrieval

Part of LTM that stores memories of how things are done.

• Declarative memory
• Acoustic memory
  Elaborative memory
• Acoustic memory
• Procedural memory

Inability to recall a word, while knowing that it is definitely in your memory.

• Priming

• Recall

• Top of the tongue phenomenon (TOT)

• Recognition

Techniques used to improve memory.

• Bias
• Persistence
• Mnemonic
• Transience

What is the memory process that locates stored information and returns it to consciousness?

• retrieval

• encoding

• storage

• interference

The average person can hold in short-term memory a list of

• nine items

• five items

• seven items

• eight items

This multiple choice question is an example of what kind of retrieval process?

• recall

• recognition

• reiteration

• relearning