PSYC 2060U Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Explicit Memory, Recognition Memory, Implicit Memory
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Memory: active system that receives, stores, organizes, alters, and recovers (retrieves) information. Encoding: converting information into a usable form. Storage: holding this information in memory. Retrieval: taking memories out of storage. Short-term memory (stm): memory system used to hold small amounts of information for relatively brief time periods. Working memory: another name for stm; like a mental scratchpad . Selective attention: focusing (voluntarily) on a selected portion of sensory input (e. g. , selective hearing) Phonological storage: storing information by sound; how most things are stored in stm, very sensitive to interruption or interference. Verbal (e&d not e&f: confuse auditory information. Semantic (police, banker, accountant: proactive interference (pi) Information bits: short-term memory limited to the magic number of seven (plus or minus two); meaningful units of information, such as numbers, letters, words or phrases. Digit-span task: 7 4 6 8 3 2 9: a test of attention and short-term memory in which a strong of numbers is recalled.
