Chapter 7

• Free Recall - recalling information without prompts or cues.

  • SAQs

  Cued Recall - recalling information with hints

  • Class Review
• Explicit Memory (Direct Memory) - memory that is easily and intentionally recalled and recited, specific to you

  • Address
  • Pythagorean Theorem


  Implicit Memory (Indirect Memory) - asked to generate words, without necessarily regarding them as memories, open to everyone

  • Songs
  • Walking
• Procedural Memories - memories of how to do something, developed gradually

  • Doing
  • Riding a bike
  • Eating with chopsticks


  Declarative Memories - memories we can readily state in words, developed all at once

  • Stating
  • Name
• Short-Term Memory - temporary storage of recent events (30 seconds)

  • Turns long term by interacting with it


  Long-Term Memory - relatively permanent storage
• Chunking - remembering things in chunks

  • Phone numbers