Unit 8: Memory Notes #2

Encoding

Retrieval

Forgetting

Storage

It is stored in long-term memory

It is lost

It is automatically retrieved

It becomes procedural memory

Procedural memory

Semantic memory

Short-term memory

Episodic memory

Semantic memory

Episodic memory

Flashbulb memory

False memory

Remembering your last birthday party

Knowing that Paris is the capital of France

Recalling your first day at school

Understanding how to ride a bicycle

You can almost recall a word but can't quite remember it

You remember every detail of an event

You believe a memory that never happened

You recall a fact instantly

Apparent loss of memory due to decay and interference

Permanent loss of memory due to injury

Temporary loss of memory due to stress

Improvement of memory over time

Stimuli must be learned in the order presented

Stimuli can be learned in any order

Serial position only applies to numbers

Psychologists never use nonsense words

Items at the beginning

Items in the middle

Items at the end

Items that are repeated

Interference

Repression

Decay

Retrieval failure

Short term memory

Long term memory

Sensory memory

Procedural memory