PSYC 2410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Echoic Memory, Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory
5 Dec 2014
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A three-component model: suggests memory has three major components, sensory memory, short term memory and long term memory, these components may involve interrelated neural sites. Short-term memory: holds the information that we are conscious of at any given time. Organization and imagery: hierarchy enhances our understanding. It has visual organization: greater possibility of using imagery as a supplemental memory code, enhances people"s ability to remember words. Chunking: combining individual items into larger units of meaning. Info is stored into long-term memory by verbal codes and non-verbal (typically visual) codes: method of loci: forming images that link items to places. Exposure and rehearsal: to really understand a concept we need to employ effortful deep processing. If you"re exposed to a stimulus without stopping and thinking about it, this represents shallow processing. Maintenance rehearsal: the simple repetition of information: most useful for keeping info active in short-term, working memory and help transfer info into long-term, deeper processing than elaborative.
