| A | B |
|---|
| sensory adaptation | getting used to a constant level of stimuli |
| selective attention | focusing on one task or stimuli while blocking out or ignoring other stimuli |
| feature extraction | noticing/recognizing one stimulus among many other stimuli |
| sensory memory | brief, instantaneous stoarge of information in the senses |
| iconic memory | information pauses briefly in your visual system (eyeballs-sight) |
| echoic memory | information pauses briefly in your auditory system (ears-hearing) |
| automatic encoding | processing of information without trying |
| effortful encoding | processing of information through persistence & effort |
| maintenance rehearsal | repetition to keep information in STM |
| elaborative rehearsal | deeper processing using cues or associations to move info into LTM |
| recall | retrieving memory through active reconstruction |
| recognition | retrieving memory using cues |
| short-term memory | working memory |
| limited duration | aspect of STM: lasts only 30 seconds |
| chunking | grouping or categorizing |
| interference | something that blocks information from being understood, stored, or retrieved |
| cue | memory trigger/hint |
| retrieval | process of pulling memory out of storage |
| input | any outside stimulus that may be noticed by our senses |
| encoding | process of creating a mental representation that may then be stored in memory |
| limited capacity | aspect of STM: can hold only 5-9 unrelated items |
