Understand these forms of memory and how they are different from each other: sensory memory, short term memory, working memory, long term memory.
What is encoding?
What is storage?
What is short-term memory storage? What is the capacity for short-term memory? How long can we store information here?
What is “chunking”?
What is long-term memory storage? What is the capacity for long-term memory? How long can we store information here?
How is the hippocampus involved in long-term storage?
What are explicit and implicit memory?
Within explicit memory, be able to name and give examples of the two types.
Within implicit memory, be able to name and give examples of the two types.
What is a schema? How is it related to memory?
What is availability vs. accessibility of stored information?
How does testing memory (i.e., retrieval) strengthen storage?
How are recall and recognition used to measure memory?
What are retrieval cues? What is state-dependent retrieval? Provide examples of each.
What are the seven “sins” of memory? Understand how these are related to forgetting or other memory problems. Know the names, brief descriptions, and examples of:
- Transience
- Absentmindedness
- Blocking
- Memory misattribution
- Suggestibility
- Bias
- Persistence