Memory

Question 1

Memory is

Answer 1

The capacity to acquire retain and recall knowledge and skills

Question 2

Different types of memory

Answer 2

• Episodic
• semantic
• Procedural

Question 3

Episodic memory

Answer 3

The ability to remember events from the past

Question 4

Semantic memory

Answer 4

The ability to remember organized knowledge about language and about the world for
example, how many months in a year

Question 5

Procedural memory

Answer 5

The ability to remember how to do things

Question 6

Three levels of memory

Answer 6

• Sensory
• Short term
• long-term

Question 7

Sensory

Answer 7

• Records information from the senses for a few seconds
  -Enables you to hold information long enough to record what is necessary from the environment
• allows you to select what you think should be retained from all sensory information that you are receiving

Question 8

Short term memory

Answer 8

• hold information for 10 to 15 seconds
  -If you continue to work within the information, it will either be disregarded or stored in long-term memory
• Can store about seven separate, unorganized items
• Items are sorted in short term memory by sound mental picture or person meaning

Question 9

Long-term memory

Answer 9

• Items that are important and have meaning to our stored in long-term memory
• can retain as much information as you want for as long as you want, but you cannot always recall everything at will

Question 10

Suggestions for improving the ability to recall information from long-term memory include…

Answer 10

• store the information effectively
• use efficient methods of retrieving the information
• recall the information regularly
• organize information and related to other information