Memory

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

• Long-Term Memory

• Short-term Memory

• Sensory Memory

The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system

• Long-Term Memory

• Short-term Memory

• Sensory Memory

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

• Long term memory

• Sensory memory

• Short term memory

The process of storing something that is seen in our memory system.

• Semantic encoding

• Visual encoding

• Acoustic encoding

Which of the following is related to forgetting?

• Interference

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Displacement

Method of encoding for short term memory is

• Acoustic

• Semantic

• Visual

The capacity and duration of long term memory

• 10 items of information, 20 seconds

• Unlimited, a few minutes to a lifetime

• 7 items of information, lifetime

Capacity and duration of short term memory

• 15 items of information, 10 seconds

• 7 items of information, 18 seconds

• 7 items of information, 20 seconds

Stages of memory in the right order

• Encode - Store - Input

• Input - Encode - Output

• Encode - Input - Output

The process of storing the meaning of information in our memory system, rather than the sound of a word, we store the definition/ meaning of that word.

• Visual encoding

• Semantic encoding

• Acoustic encoding