PSYC 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Memory Rehearsal, Sensory Memory, Prefrontal Cortex
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Chapter 6: acquisition of memory and the short-term/working memory system. Memory: processes involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills after the original information is no longer present. Modal model of memory (atkinson and shiffrin 1968): turning point in how memory is addressed: structural features. Sensory memory system: very short-lived memory of processing. If we pay attention to information, sensory memory goes into short-term memory. Can maintain info in stm through rehearsal or info can be lost. If info is important enough or rehearsed enough, can go from stm to ltm. Info can be retrieved from ltm to conscious awareness: control processes: active processes that can be controlled by the person. Strategies used to make a stimulus more memorable. Procedure: array of 12 letters (3 x 4) flashed quickly on a screen and participants asked to report as many as possible. Result: average was 4 letters (37. 5%)
