Chapter 7: Memory

Psychology 101

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MEMORY
-AN INTERNAL RECORD OR REPRESENTATION OF SOME PRIOR EVENT OR EXPERIENCE
INFORMATION-PROCESSING MODEL
-MEMORY IS A PROCESS WHERE INFORMATION GOES THOUGH 3 BASIC PROCESSES; ENCODING, STORAGE, RETRIEVAL-SIMILAR TO A COMPUTER
ENCODING
-PROCESSING MEMORY INTO THE STORAGE SYSTEM
STORAGE
-RETAINING INFORMATION OVER TIME
RETRIEVAL
-RECOVERING STORED INFORMATION
PDPM
-MEMORY IS DISTRIBUTED ACROSS A WIDE NETWORK OF INTERCONNECTED NEURONS LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE BRAIN-WHEN ACTIVATED THIS NETWORK WORKS SIMULTANEOUSLY TO PROCESS INFO
THREE-STAGE MODEL
-MEMORY REQUIRES 3 DIFFERENT STORAGE BOXES OR STGES TO HOLD AND PROCESS INFO FOR VARIOUS LENGTHS OF TIME
SENSORY MEMORY
-PRESERVES INFORMATION FROM EACH OF THE SENSES IN ORIGINAL SENSORY FORM
ICONIC MEMORY
-THE VISUAL ICON
ECHOIC MEMORY
-AUDITORY INFORMATION
SHORT-TERM MEMORY
-WORKING MEMORY-SECOND STAGE, WHICH TEMPORARILY STORES SENSORY INFO AND DECIDES WHETHER TO SEND IT TO LTM
CHUNKING
-GROUPING SEPARATE PIECES OF INFO INTO A SINGLE UNIT
LONG-TERM MEMORY
-3RD STAGE OF MEMORY WITH RELATIVELY PERMANENT MEMORY STORAGE AND A VIRTUALLY LIMITLESS CAPACITY
SEMANTIC NETWORKS
-CONSISTS OF NODES REPRESENTING CONCEPTS-RELATED NODES ARE LINKED BY PATHWAYS
SPREADING ACTIVATION
-EXPLAINS WHY THINKING ABOUT ONE WORD CAN MAKE REMEMBERING CLOSELY RELATED WORDS EASIER