| A | B |
|---|
| Sensory Memory | holds items instant to 2 seconds |
| Iconic Memory | visual sensory memory component |
| Echoic Memory | auditory sensory memory |
| S-T-M Capacity | 7 bit + or - 2 (5 to 9 items) |
| Alan Baddeley's term for S-T-M | Working Memory |
| Central Executive | Coordinates functions of working memory |
| Phonological Loop | stores a limited number of sounds in working memory |
| Visuospatial Working Memory | stores visual/spatial info. inWorking Memory |
| Declarative Memory | Fact memory |
| Procedural Memory | Skill memory |
| Semantic Memory | component of L-T-M that stores impersonal facts |
| Episodic Memory | L-T-M component that stores personal events, happeningd |
| encoding | transforming info. into something that can be stored in memory |
| retrieval | locating and using information from memory |
| recency | remembering the last items in a list/task /sequence |
| primacy | remembering the first items in a list/task/sequence |
| serial position | effect that states we tend to forget items in the middle of a list |
| automatic encoding | transfer of info. from STM to LTM with no awareness |
| rehearsal | repeating info. so it remains in working memory |
| storage | could last for seconds to years |
| elaborative rehearsal | making meaningful associations between new info. and familiar items |
| proactive | interference caused by old info getting in way of new |
| retroactive | interference where new info gets in the way of retrieving old info. |
| explicit | intentional retrieval of a specific item in memory |
| memory | the ability to retain information over time |
| decay | items spontaneously fade from our memory |
| repression | psychodynamic term for forgotten items because they cause pain/anxiety |
