Memory

Question 1

What do you know about the Sensory register?

Answer 1

The role of the sensory register is to receive information from the environment stimuli (which are things such as sight, smell, feel, etc) which is briefly represented by the sensory brain areas.

📈📈High capacity
💨Fades in <1 second or less

Very little passes further into memory system unless you pay attention to it.

Question 2

What do you know about the working memory (short term memory)?

Answer 2

• Known as a limited capacity store, it can only contain a certain number of ‘things’ before forgetting takes place.
• maintenance rehearsal occurs when we repeat material to ourselves over and over again.
• we can keep this info in our short term memories along as we rehearse it. If we rehearse it for long enough, it passes into the long term memory store.

Question 3

What do you know about Long term memory?

Answer 3

Partially permanent store for information that has been rehearsed for a prolonged period of time.

Although material is stored in the LTM, when we want to recall info, it has to be transferred back into out STM’s by retrieval. According to MSM, this is true of all memories, none are recalled directly from LTM.

LTM are coded mostly semantically (ie. in terms of meaning)

Question 4

Which memory store would sight/ something visual go into?

Answer 4

Iconic memory store: (visual information which is coded visually)

Question 5

Which memory store would hearing go into?

Answer 5

Echoing memory store: (sound information which is coded acoustically)