PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Source Amnesia, Echoic Memory, Long-Term Memory
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3 stages of memory: encoding, storage, retrieval. Echoic memory (auditory information up to 4 seconds) Short-term memory: temporary storage, aka working memory, 5 to 9 items. Maintenance rehearsal (repeat information over and over again) Long-term memory: unlimited capacity and duration. Recognition (seen it before) vs. recall (go back to long term memory) Sunday, april 3, y: use retrieval cues. Encoding-specificity principle (when you take in the information you encode that information but also what"s going on around the environment) Mood congruence (when we are in a particular mood, it activates all those memories with that mood) Decay: use it or lose it. Interference: proactive (older memories make it difficult to make new memories) vs. retroactive (new information makes it hard to remember old information) Motivated forgetting (forget something because you don"t want to remember it) Encoding failure (we see the information, goes to sensory memory and sometimes short term memory, we didn"t really take the information in)
