PS260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sensory Memory, Endel Tulving, Knowledge Representation And Reasoning
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Chapter 5: the acquisition of memories and the working-memory. One way to frame learning and memory: acquisition, storage, retrieval. Analogy to creating, storing and opening a computer file: this view is problematic for at least two reasons: New learning is grounded in previously learned (stored) knowledge. Effective learning depends on how the information will be later retrieved. Information processing: a perspective in cognitive psychology in which complex mental events involve a number of discrete components, these components receive input from, and send input to, one another. The modal model (atkinson & shiffrin, 1968; waugh & norman, 1965) makes a distinction between two kinds of memory: short-term memory (stm) holds the information currently in use. Working memory (wm) a more recent term for short-term memory, emphasizing its function. A dynamic form of short-term memory: long-term memory (ltm) all of the information one can remember. Information first arrives and is stored in sensory memory: input in raw sensory form.
