CP102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Encoding Specificity Principle
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Storage involves maintaining encoded information in memory over time. Retrieval involves recovering information from memory stores. Attention involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Levels of processing theory proposes that deeper levels of processing result in longer- lasting memory codes. Elaboration linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding. Dual-coding theory holds that memory is enhanced by forming semantic and visual codes, since either can lead recall. Self-referent encoding involves deciding how or whether information is personally relevant. Sensory preserves information in its original sensory form for a brief time, usually only a fraction of a second. Short term memory is a limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for up to about 20 seconds. Rehearsal the process of repetitively verbalizing or thinking about the information for up to about 20 seconds. Chunk is a group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit.
