NATS 1860 Lecture Notes - Long-Term Memory, Memory Span, Free Recall
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Inference: you need to have prior knowledge in o. Since you don"t see everything at the same time you have to store time and space information: sentence processing. In some languages this is necessary: it is important to know friend from foe, and recognizing problematic people. Problem solving (mental arithmetic: you add things into your memory and then retrieve them again through short term memory. When will memory eventually be forgotten and inaccessible. Capacity limits on stores: is there a differentiation between long and short term memory. Maintenance = keeping the memory alive and active. Retrieval = finding the encoded information and retrieving it. These three processes are what are referred to during the memory process. You start out with the sensory information storage all the information coming in (visual, auditory, etc. ), each of the sensory systems has a buffer that can store an enormous amount of items for a limited amount of time.