Chapter 6 Memory

the retention of encoded information over time. 

• memory 
•  storage
• imagery 
• recall

the process of getting information out of memory storage. 

• recall 
• rehearsal
• priming
• retrieval

a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second. 

• iconic memory
• implicit memory
• echoic memory
• working memory

After looking up a phone number, Jim calls it, then forgets. The number was stored in his

• Short-Term Memory
• Long Term Memory
• Visual Memory
• Echoic Memory

The process of filing information into your memory is...

• Chunking
• Encoding
• Retrieving
• Priming

What are the three types of storage that our brain uses?

• sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
• vivid memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
• compact memory, short-term memory, long-term memory
• none of these

Processes that you have memorized and know, but the details are not highly focused on

• Implicit Memory

• Explicit Memory

• Episodic Memory

• Echoic Memory

Making an effort to rehearse information over and over again to remember

• Elaborative Rehearsal

• Maintenance Rehearsal

• State Dependent Memory

• Context Dependent Memory

Attach meaning to info through “deep processing” to remember

• Semantic Rehearsal

• Elaborative Rehearsal

• Maintenance Rehearsal

• Acoustic Retrieval

What are the 3 types of Sensory Memory

• Iconic

• Acoustic

• Eidetic

• Echoic