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Sensory memory
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Immediate, brief
recording of sensory info into the memory system |
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Working memory
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New understanding of short-term memory
active processinf od incoming auditory and visual-spatial info and of info retrieved from long-term memory |
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Explicit memory
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Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and "declare"
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Effortful processing
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Requires attention and conscious effort
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Automatic processing
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Unconscious encoding of incidental info such as space, time, and frequence, and of well-learned info such as word meanings
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Implicit memory
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Retention independent of conscious recollection
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Iconic memory
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Visual- few tenths
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Echoic memory
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Auditory- 3-4 seconds
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Shallow processing
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Structure and appearance of the word
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Deep processing
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Meaning of the word
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Hippocampus
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Limbic system
helps process explicit memories for storage |
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Priming
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Activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory
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Anterograde amnesia
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An inability to form new memories
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Retrograde amnesia
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Inability to retrieve info from ones past
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Proactive interference
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Prior learning on recall of new info
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