Chapter 6

Memory

Memory

• Definition- an active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters it as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage

• 3 Processes of Memory– Encoding – Storage– Retrieval

Models of Memory

• Levels of Processing Model• Parallel Distributed Processing Model• Information Processing Model

Information Processing Model

• Sensory Memory• Iconic Sensory Memory• Capacity of Iconic Memory• Duration of Iconic Memory• Eidetic Imagery• Function of Iconic Memory• Echoic Sensory Memory

Short Term Memory

• Selective Attention• Three Interrelated Systems• Capacity• Chunking• Maintenance Rehearsal

Long Term Memory

• Capacity • Duration• Elaborative Rehearsal• Types of Long Term Memory– Procedural– Declarative• Sematic• Episodic

Long Term Memory• Organization– Semantic Network Model

• Retrieval– Retrieval Cues– Encoding Specificity– Recall– Recognition

• Recognition• Automatic Encoding

Reconstructive Nature

• Constructive Process of Memories• Memory Retrieval Problems

Forgetting

• Ebbinghaus and the forgetting curve• Distributed practice• Encoding Failure• Memory Trace Delay Theory• Interference Theory

Physical Aspects of memory

• Neural activity• Hippocampus• Amnesia– Retrograde amnesia– Anterograde amnesia– Infantile Amnesia

• Alzheimers