Memory Unit Vocabulary

the process by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved

• Memory

• Episodic Memory

• Flashbulb Memory

• Generic Memory

a memory of a specic experienced event

• Generic memory

• Flashbulb memory

• Episodic memory

• Procedural Memory

a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

• Generic Memory

• Flashbulb Memory

• Procedural Memory

• Encoding

general knowledge and information that can be recalled

• Storage

• Procedural Memory

• Encoding

• Generic Memory

memory that consists of the skills and procedures one has learned

• Elaborative Rehearsal

• Maintenance Rehearsal

• Procedural Memory

• Retrieval

the translation of information into a form that can be stored in memory

• Encoding

• Tip-of-the-tongue Phenomenon

• Ionic Memory

• Sensory Memory

the maintenance of encoded information over time

• Maintenance Rehearsal

• Retrieval

• Storage

• Sensory Memory

the repetition of new information in an attempt to keep from forgetting it

• Generic Memory

• Maintenance Rehearsal

• Flashbulb Memory

• Elaborative Rehearsal

The process of recalling information from memory storage

• Elaborative Rehearsal

• Memory

• Encoding

• Retrieval

the belief that a piece if information is stored in our memory although we cannot retrieve it easily

• Sensory memory

• Ionic Memory

• Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

• Eidetic Imagery