psychology - week 8 - chapter 7

sensory mode - smell, hearing, seeing

word form

• sensory memory
• short-term memory
• long-term memory

the temporary storage and processing of information that can be used to solve problems, respond to the environment or achieve goals.

visual store and verbal store

• declarative memory - memory for facts and events
• procedural memory - refers to 'how to' knowledge or procedures or skills
• explicit memory - needs conscious recollection
• implicit memory - memory that is expressed in behaviour
• everyday memory - memory as it occurs in daily life

systematic strategies for remembering information

• clusters of information that are interconnected with eachother
• e.g. dog - fur - bark - mammal - cat - cow

• transience - memories fade
• absent-mindedness - failure to remember something when attention is elsewhere
• misattribution - misremembering 
• suggestibility - thinking we remember something when someone actually implanted that in our minds by telling stories
• bias - distortions of the way we recall events in a way we would rather remember it
• persistence - memories we wish we could forget but they keep coming back
• forgetting - inability to remember

decay, interference, and motivated forgetting/forgetting for a reason.

20-30 seconds

vivid memories of exciting or highly consequential events

• the inability to retain new memories
• usually caused by damage to the temporal lobe

losing memories from a period before the time the persons brain was damaged.