MUSI 1000 Lecture 7: Chapter 7 - Memory
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Episodic memory = memory of our lives, who we are. The changes in structures that account for this capacity. To remember, we must pay attention to what is happening. Encoding levels: structural = shallow, phonemic = intermediate, semantic = deep. Elaboration = linking stimulus to other info at the time of encoding (thinking of examples) Visual imagery = making images to represent words you want to remember (easier for concrete objects: dual-coding theory) Self-referent encoding = marking info personally meaningful. Analogy: info storage in computers are like information storage in humans. Info processing theories: sensory memory, short term memory, long term memory. Brief preservation of info in original sensory form. Auditory/visual approximately of a second: george sperling 1960. Limited capacity magical number 7 items plus or minus 2. Chunking grouping familiar stimuli for storage as a single unit. Limited duration 20 seconds without rehearsal: rehearsal = process of repetitively verbalising or thinking about the info, maintenance vs. elaborative rehearsal.
