Memory

Question 1

What is memory?

Answer 1

Our ability to encode, store, retain and subsequently recall information and past experiences in the human brain

Question 2

What is information processing?

Answer 2

The idea that information is processed in the brain in a linear way meaning that it flows through the brain in a way thats logical

Question 3

What is encoding?

Answer 3

How information is registered as a memory e.g a sound or smell

Question 4

What is storage?

Answer 4

How the information remains as a memory once it has been registered

Question 5

What is retrieval?

Answer 5

How we find and access stored memories

Question 6

What is capacity?

Answer 6

The size of the memory store; how much information it can hold

Question 7

What is duration?

Answer 7

How long information remains in the memory store