Memory

Memory

1. The ability to remember things serves us in several ways.

2. Memory allows us to make intelligent decision about how to behave in a complex word

3. Memory functions

   • Spantial memory: remember places
   • Recognising people, faces and names
   • Emotional recognition: how the people behave around you
   • Movements and coordinate the body
   • Vocabulary and grammar
   • Recalling sensory information

4. Primary abilities

   • Recall: retrieve information that you learn previously
   • Recognition: Identity something that you observed and learn
   • Relearning: learn something more quickly when you have observed

5. Process of Memory

   • Events
     • Sensory Memory
       • Working Memory
         • Long term Memory

6. Memory errors

   • Enconding failure
     • Storage decay
       • Retrieval faiure
         • Interference
           • Memory construction errors