Memory

Memory

1. Multi-Store Model

   • 3 stores
     • Sensory store
     • Short-term store
       • can hold 7 (+ or - 2) pieces of information
     • Long - term store
   • Storage
     • holding info in the memory system
   • Retrieval
     • Recovering info from storage
   • Encoding
     • Changing info so it can be stored

2. Levels of processing

   • Semantic Processing
     • thinking about the meaning og the words to be learnt
   • Structural Processing
     • Thinking about the physical appearance of the words to be learnt
   • Phonetic Processing
     • thinking about the sound of the words to be learnt

3. Forgetting

   • Retrograde Amnesia
     • Loss of memory of things before the brain damage
   • Anterograde Amnesia
     • When you can remember stuff before the brain damage but can't remember anything new
   • Intereference
     • When old info can't be recalled due to new info being learnt or new info can't be learnt due to old info

4. Reconstructive

   • Study
     • Loftus and palmer
       • Car study
         • Videos - asked how fast when hit or smashed
         • Those who heard hit estimated lower
       • to see if asking leading questions affects accuracy of recall
   • Eye witness testimony
   • When we alter info. to fit with what we already know and what makes sense to us