PSY30400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: George Sperling
Chapter 5: Short-Term Memory and Working Memory
• Modal Model of Memory:
o Proposed control processes which are dynamic processes associated with the
structural features that can be controlled by the person and may differ from one
task to another → examples include:
▪ Rehearsal:
• operates in STM
• repeating a stimulus over and over again, such as a phone number
▪ Strategies that you use to make a stimulus more memorable like relating
digits to a date in history
▪ Strategies that help you to focus on more relevant and important
information
o Encoding:
▪ the process of storing information in long-term memory
▪ memorizing a phone number for future use
o Retrieval:
▪ process of remembering information stored in LTM
▪ remembering the phone number you memorized
o Components of memory do not act in isolation
▪ a lot of back and forth from STM to LTM
• Sensory Memory:
o the retention, for brief periods of time, of the effects of sensory stimulation
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