PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Echoic Memory, Interference Theory, Iconic Memory
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Stores: retain information in memory without using it for any specific purpose; like a hard drive for computers. The atkinson-shiffrin model says that memory is a multistage process. Information flows through a brief sensory memory store into short-term memory, where rehearsal encodes it into long-term memory. Memories are retrieved from long-term memory and brought into short-term storage for further processing. Three stores in the atkinson-shiffrin (1968) model include sensory memory, short=term memory (stm) and long-term memory (ltm) Control processes: shift information from one memory store to another. Info enters through sensory memory store through vision, hearing and other sense, and the control process we call attention selects which info it will pass on to stm. Attention: selects which information will be passed on to stm. Encoding: the process of storing information in the ltm. Retrieval: brings information from ltm back into stm. Sensory memory: a memory store that accurately holds perceptual info for a very brief amount of time.
