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Sensory Memory
Holds info in its original sesory form, for about 1/2 sec. or less
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Short Term Memory
- Holds info for about 2-30 sec, then is lost or stored in long term memory
- can hold about 7 items less or more about 2
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Chuncking
- putting into together into meaningful units
- can expand ST memory
- ex) phone number: (406) 543-7077 easier to remeber then 4065437077
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Rehearsal
Repeatingly practicing material so it enters LT memory
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Working Memory
- Also Short Term memory but emphisizes its function
- Function: required to attend to and solve a problem at hand
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Central Executive and where located
- a component of working memory
- decides wher to focus attention
- Attention allows to focus on task at hand and develop a plan for solving
- located in Pre-frontal Cortex
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Visuospatical Sketchpad
- A component of Working Memory
- provides storage for visual and spatial sensations
- Ex) images, photos, scenes, 3D objects
- an image lasts only seconds b4 it fades
- usually about 3-4 images can be held in ST memory
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Phonological Loop
- A Component of working memory
- sound or linguistic info
- provides extra storage for limited number of didgits for up to 30 sec.
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Long Term Memory (LT)
- Most complex form of memory
- in theory, capacity and duration = limitliss
- many factors can inferfere with gettting info out
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Explicit Memory
- Conscious recall of facts and events
- also called declarative memory because it refers to memories that can be deliberatley accessed or declared
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Declaratice Memory
Same as Explicit Memory
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Semantic Memory
- Type of Explicit Memory
- memory for facts and knowlede - what we learn at school
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Episodic Memory
- memory that recalls experiences we have had
- more personal
- remembering highchool graduation, and address
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Implicit Memory
- Also know as Non-declarative memory
- cannot directly recall this type of memory
- where we store knowlege of previous expierience
- such as skills that we preform automatically after we've masterd them
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Non-declarative Memort
Same as Implicit Memory
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Procedural Memory
- part of implicit memory
- refers to knowledge we hold for almost any behavior or physical skill we learn.
- Ex) riding a bike
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Priming
- kind of implicit memory
- when recall is improved by prior exposure to same or similar stimuli
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H.M.
- Henry Molaison
- Was in bicycle accident and had his hippocampus removed
- this = loss ability to form new memories
- He was givin the Mirror - drawing task
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