memory

memory

1. flow of information

   • encoding
     • storage
       • retrieval

2. multi-store explanation

   • sensory store
     • short term store
       • long term store
         • Duration/capacity
           • sensory = less than one second =very limited
             • short term =less than one minute = approximately 7 chinks of infomation
               • long term = up to a life time = unlimited
   • peterson & peterson (1959)
   • reasarch study : Murdock (1962)

3. recency effect - information received later is recalled better than earlier information

   • Primacy effect - the first information is received is recalled better than later information.

4. Reconstructive memory

   • Bartlett (1932)
   • Wynn and Logie (1998)
   • Reconstructive memory - Altering our recollection of things so that they make more sense to us.

5. levels of processsing

   • Did you know - high levels of brain activiy when youthink about the meaning oft he words , less activity when thinking about sound of words and even less it you think about structure.
   • Structural processing - Thinking about the physical appearance of the word to be learnt
     • Phonetic processing -thinking about the sound of words to be learnt
       • Semantic processing - thinking aboy the meaning of the words to be learnt
   • Levels of processing - the depth at which info is thought about when trying to learn it