Memory

This is another name for our short-term memory.

Memories that we retain without conscious effort and often without our awareness.

Our Explicit Memories can be divided into what two categories?

The process of holding information in your head.

To help remember details of the crime, a victim is taken back to the location. Is this to trigger context or state dependent cues?

The process of intentionally storing information into your LTM

Facts are these kinds of memories

very brief sensory memory of some visual stimuli that occur in the form of mental pictures

Our auditory sensory memory.

Our memories of specific life events.

Getting the information you have stored back out of your head so you can use it.

Memories of skills and how to perform them.

Mechanoreceptors in our skin relay what type of information to the brain?

After a bump to the head, Michael is unable to remember some things that happened before the bump. his is likely suffereing from what?

Memory that allows us to recall past knowledge and consciously bring it to mind.

Is the duration of STM longer or shorter duration than sensory memory?

The process of encoding that requires attention and conscious effort.

Our ability to process multiple stimuli of repeated or learned activities without our being aware of it.