PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Retrograde Amnesia, Flashbulb Memory, Anterograde Amnesia
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Has three memory stores (stores means to retain information in memory without using it for any specific purpose) The three memory stores include sensory memory, short-term memory (stm) and long- term memory (ltm) Control processes- shift information from one memory store to another. Information enters the sensory memory store through vision, hearing and other senses and control process we call attention-selects which information will be passed on to stm information from stm goes through encoding- the process of storing information in the. Retrieval brings information from ltm back into stm. Sensory memory is a memory store that accurately holds perceptual information for a very brief amount of time. Iconic memory is the visual form of sensory memory which is held for about one half to one second. Echoic memory is the auditory form of sensory memory and is held considerably longer up to 5 seconds.
