PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Encoding Specificity Principle, Friends House, Retrograde Amnesia
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First thing to notice about the atkinson-shiffrin model is that it includes three memory stores. Stores: retain information in memory without using it for any specific purpose: essentially serve the same purpose as hard drives serve for computers. The three stores include , short-term memory (stm), and long-term memory (ltm) Control processes: shift information from one memory store to another: they are the arrows in the model. Information enters the sensory memory through vistion, hearing and other senses, and the control process attention. Attention: selects which information will be passed on to stm. Some info but not all, goes through encoding. Encoding: the process of storing information in the ltm system. Retrieval happens when you become aware of existing memories. Retrieval: brings information from ltm back into stm. Sensory memory information for a very brief amount of time second. Sensory memory: is a memory store that accurately hold perceptual.
