PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Motor Learning, Elizabeth Loftus, Mnemonic
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Stores: retain information in memory without using it for any specific purpose sort of like hard drives. Three stores include sensory memory, short term memory (stm) and long term memory (ltm) Control processes: shift information from one memory store to another and are represented by the arrows in the model. First information enters sensory memory through vision, hearing and other sense and then a control process called attention selects which information will be passed on to stm. Second, some but not all information from stm goes through encoding , the process of storing information in the ltm. Retrival brings information from ltm back into stm. Sensory memory: a memory store that holds perceptual information for a very brief amount of time. Iconic memory: visual form of sensory memory held for about one half to one second. Attention allows us to move a small amount of information from sensory memory into stm for further processing.
