TAL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Procedural Memory, Episodic Memory, Descriptive Knowledge

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Information processing: most common theories of memory are information processing explanations. Stimuli from the environment (sights, sounds, smells, etc. ) constantly bombard our body"s mechanisms for seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, & feeling. Sensory memory--system that holds sensory information very briefly. Sensory information is fragile in duration, lasts very briefly (1-3 seconds) Sensory register holds information about the stimuli very briefly after it leaves. In the next phase, features are organized into patterns; studied by gestalt theorists: gestalt--german for pattern or whole; hold that people organize their perceptions into coherent wholes; we organize sensory information into patterns or relationships. Short-term memory--component of memory system that holds information for about 20 seconds. Cognitive load: retaining information in working memory. In chunking, you are able to retain more information if you can group it: forgetting. Information may be lost from working memory through interference or decay.

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