Memory Summary

Memory Summary

1. MSM

   • A representation of how memory stores information linearly and in 3 stores.
   • This model also explains how information is remembered, transferred and forgotten.
   • Sensory Register
     • stores info from the senses
     • if attention isn't paid to info then spontaneaous decay happens and it is forgotten.
     • capacity =
       • high
         • Sperling
           • whole/partial report technique
     • duration =
       • milliseconds
     • encoding =
       • a variety
         • Crowder
           • differene in echoic/iconic duration
   • Short Term Memory
     • temporary
     • encoding =
       • acoustic
         • Baddeley
           • acoustically/semantically similar/dissimilar
     • capacity =
       • 7 +/- 2 chunks
         • Jacobs
           • graph of immediate recall
     • duration =
       • 30 seconds
         • Peterson and Peterson
           • nonsense trigrams
   • Long Term Memory
     • capacity =
       • limitless
         • but impossible to test
     • duration =
       • unlimited
         • Bahrick et al
           • classmates
     • encoding =
       • semantic
         • Baddeley
           • acoustically/semantically similar/dissimilar
     • Types of LTM
       • Episodic
         • specific, personal events