PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Memory Rehearsal, Memory Span, Mnemonic
11 Dec 2015
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Chapter 5: the acquisition of memories and the working-memory system. Acquisition: the process of gaining information and placing it into memory. Storage phase: holding information in memory until it is needed. Retrieval: you remember or locate the information and bring it into active use. Information processing: complex mental events such as learning, remembering and deciding actually involve a large number of discrete steps. These steps occur one by one, each with its own characteristics, and with each providing as its output the input to the next step in the sequence. Modal model: in this model working memory serves both as the storage site for material now being contemplated and as the loading platform for long term memory. Information can reach working memory through the process of perception, or it can be drawn from long-term memory. According to the modal model information is stored briefing in sensory memory short term memory long term memory.
