Memory

The brief, initial encoding of sensory information (e.g. sights, sounds, smells, tastes) in the memory system...

• Sensory Memory

• Short-Term Memory

• Long-Term Memory

Information you are consciously aware of before it is either stored more permanently or forgotten...

• Sensory Memory

• Short-Term Memory

• Long-Term Memory

The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system...

• Sensory Memory

• Short-Term Memory

• Long-Term Memory

The conscious effort to retrieve and state personally experienced events...

• Explicit Memory

• Implicit Memory

The conscious effort to retrieve and state facts and general knowledge...

• Explicit Memory

• Implicit Memory

The recall of skills and procedures, including motor and cognitive skills...

• Explicit Memory

• Implicit Memory

Identify the part of your long-term memory that would help you answer this question: what is the tallest mountain the world?

• Explicit Memory

• Implicit Memory

In order to recall motor skills, like how to run, or cognitive skills, like how to write the alphabet, which part of your long-term memory would you use?

• Explicit Memory

• Implicit Memory

Used to describe long-term memories that are especially resistant to forgetting and are likely to last a lifetime...

• Permanent Memory

• Interference

• Motivated Forgetting

• Repression

There are various types of retrieval failure that can lead to forgetting. When we have a reason to forget, this is called...

• Proactive Interference

• Retroactive Interference

• Motivated Forgetting