PSYC 160 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Memory Address, Autobiographical Memory
Quiz 4 Review Guide
Subtopic One: Memory Processes
(a) the stages of memory process, (b) what activates each stage,
and (c) the process within each stage. (14 Questions)
Most people will not lose memory function throughout their life
How does memory work?
• Information Processing Theory -- based on an analogy between human
information processing and the way computer work
Computers (Closed System)
Humans (Open System)
Input mechanisms (hardware,
software)
Input mechanisms (brain,
mind/cognition)
Output responses
Output responses
• Limitations: does not distinguish between information (factual, based on
validity of facts) and knowledge (experiential)
• Types of Human Memory:
o Implicit (Procedural) -- memory of skills/routine procedures
▪ Performed automatically
▪ Ex: Sensorimotor memory
o Explicit (Declarative or Conceptual) -- conscious memory of
facts/experiences
▪ “What” one knows (D)
▪ “Why” you went to the store (C)
▪ Aggregate of all facts/events in one’s experience
▪ Ex: remembering you want to buy something at store
How Memory Works:
• When people use term “memory” they are referring to final stage in memory
process (retrieval)
o Recognition
o Recall
o Reconstruction
o Retrieval
Stages:
1. Specific Features
2. Combined Features
3. Combine features to classify
Discussion of human memory address short and long-term memory
• Short-term -- retention for 15-30 seconds without rehearsal of information
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Document Summary
Subtopic one: memory processes (a) the stages of memory process, (b) what activates each stage, and (c) the process within each stage. (14 questions) Most people will not lose memory function throughout their life. Information processing theory -- based on an analogy between human information processing and the way computer work. Why you went to the store (c: aggregate of all facts/events in one"s experience, ex: remembering you want to buy something at store. How memory works: when people use term memory they are referring to final stage in memory process (retrieval, recognition, recall, reconstruction, retrieval. Stages: specific features, combined features, combine features to classify. Discussion of human memory address short and long-term memory: short-term -- retention for 15-30 seconds without rehearsal of information, rehearsal will allow for longer, long-term -- relatively permanent. Memory model: short-term, encoding, a: interest in object/activity, p: specific features of object activity of interest.
