short term memory

short term memory

1. attkinson and shiffrin multistore model of memory

   • structural prosess
   • alrick analogy that memory is like a computer
     • cognitive assumptions

2. information processing model

   • sensory detect and pass information
     • short term menory is rehersed- becomes destorted
     • individual interoretation before it encodes in into long term memory
   • memories get displaced when there is too much information
   • miller 7 +- 2

3. levels of processing theory

4. godden and badly

   • cue depenancy theory

5. limited capacity, limited duration and encoding

6. primacy and recency effect

   • encoding

7. capacity of the shor term memory- jacobs

   • showed the short term memory has a capacity of 5-9 parts- chunking information
   • terry- capacity studies

8. studies including amnesiacs- short term vs long term damage

   • Henry M

9. attkinson and shiffrin 15-30s memory

10. brown peterson

11. peterson ad Peterson- the longer the delay the less information can be stored

12. bradley and hitch- developed and alternative model- alternative memory