Memory Revision Mind Map

Memory Revision Mind Map

1. Types of Encoding

   • Visual
     • Sight.
       • E.g. Remembering your friend and their eye colour.
   • Acoustic
     • Sound.
       • E.g. Playing your favourite song in your head.
   • Semantic
     • Meaning.
       • E.g. Using the adjective “carmine” to describe an object
   • Olfactory
     • Smell.
       • Certain smells may remind you of something
         • E.g. An event or a person...
   • Tactile
     • Touch.
       • E.g. How cold stone feels.
   • Encoding
     • Changing information so that it could be stored in the brain.

2. Multistore Model of Memory

   • Sensory Memory
     • Duration: Few seconds
     • Capacity: Large
     • Attention transfers information to Short Term Memory
   • Short Term Memory
     • Duration: 30 Seconds
     • Capacity: 5-9 items
     • Encoding: Acoustic
   • Long Term Memory
     • Duration: Up to lifetime
     • Capacity: Unlimited
     • Encoding: Semantic

3. Factors Affecting the Accuracy of Memory

   • False Memories
     • A memory of something that didn’t happen.
       • E.g. You though you took out the trash, but you didn’t...
   • Context
     • The place where a memory is made acts like a cue for recall.
       • E.g. If you learn something new in a math class, you are more likely to recall it in there, as the surroundings act like a cue.
   • Interference
     • Two memories compete with each other and one can prevent us from accessing the other.
       • E.g. If you always put your pens into a pencil case, and then you put them somewhere else, that old memory may interfere with the new one.