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11 Cards in this Set
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Memory involves |
Encoding Storage Retrieval |
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Encoding |
Information is received. It is presented to the memory. The memory then traces and creates. |
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Storage |
Information is organized and stored |
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Retrieval |
Information is accessed and recalled from storage. |
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Information is first stored in the short term memory for 20 seconds |
If it is not acted upon it is lost. |
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Ways of working on the information in the short term memory |
Repetition Rehearsal Chunking information into bits |
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Rehearsal is the repetition of information so that it does not elope the memory after 20 seconds |
There are two types of rehearsal : Maintenance Elaborate |
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Maintenance rehearsal |
Repetition is made on the piece of information in order to allow one to act upon it. |
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Elaborate rehearsal |
Effort is made to pass the information into the long term memory. |
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Characteristics of a working short term memory |
Visual and auditory components Primacy and recency |
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Primacy :it picks on what is important |
Recency :works on information received currently |
