PSYC 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Richard Shiffrin, Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory
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Discuss the three basic functions of memory. Describe the three stages of memory storage. Describe and distinguish between procedural and declarative memory and semantic and episodic memory encoding. Three types of memory- sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Three stages of memory- encoding, storage, retrieval. Memory: set of processes used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time. Encoding: the input of information into the memory system. Automatic processing: encoding of details like time, space, frequency, and the meaning of words. Effortful processing: required work and attention, intentionally, to encode that information. Semantic encoding: encoding of words and their meaning, involves a deepest level of processing out of all 3. Visual encoding is the encoding of images. Acoustic encoding is the encoding of sounds, words in particular. Concrete, high-imagery words- able to recall pictures in head, encoded semantically and therefore are stronger memories. Semantic encoding beats visual/acoustic encoding as easy to remember.
