Memory Storage



Memory Storage

Surabhi, Blake, Cara, Adam

• Sensory memory: initial recording of sensory information.

o Iconic: momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli.

▪ Icon = visual image. (semantic)

o Echoic: momentary sensory memory if auditory stimuli.

▪ Echo = auditory remains/memory. (semantic)

• Short-term memory: activated memory that holds a few items briefly before the information is stored or forgotten.

o Remembered for a SHORT amount of time. (semantic; auditory)

• Long-term memory: relatively permanent and limitless storage of memory system.

o Remembered for a LONG amount of time. (semantic; auditory)

• Flashbulb memory: a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event.

o Flash of camera is used for a remembered event. (visual)

• Explicit memory: memory of facts that can be stated.

o Explicit (expl) can be explained (expl); clear memory. (auditory)

• Implicit memory: retention without conscious recollection.

o Implicate something you’ve learned into actions; implied without consciousness.

• Cerebellum: pathway connecting brain’s reception of a tone with the response runs through brainstem and a part of the cerebellum; controls implicit memory.

• Hippocampus: helps process explicit memory.

• Infantile amnesia: forgetting of early memories.

o Forgetting of young (infant) memories.

o You, yourself, can’t remember early memories. (self-reference)

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