What Do You Know About Memory? - Prior Knowledge

What aspect of Psychology does Memory fall into?

• Developmental

• Biological

• Cognitive

• Behavioural

Which of these ISN'T a stage of memory?

• Storage

• Referal

• Encoding

• Retrieval

Tick the Three main components of the Multi-Storey Memory Model

• Long Term

• Visual-Spatial Sketchpad

• Sensory

• Episodic Buffer

• Short Term

What does it mean if something is acoustically encoded?

• You rehearse the information over and over to understand it.

• You rely on somebody repeating themselves to remember what they say.

• The information is learnt when it is received and stored audibly

• You can recall information if you say it out loud.

Memory is encoded based on meaning, what is this called?

• Semantic encoding.

• Emotional encoding

• Sensory encoding

• Flashbulb encoding

How would you define memory?

What might stop information passing into our short term memory?

• Loud noise

• Lack of attention

• Decay

• Severe Trauma or Distress

How many items out of 18 do you think you could remember if given one minute to rehearse them?

• 1-5

• 6-10

• 11-15

• 15 +

What memory strategies - if any- are you familiar with? (E.g. Theory of Loci, Mnemonics etc)

is what happens when our memories are not activated often enough and start to fade.