Memory Models Flashcards
What is the Duration and Capacity of the Short-Term Memory?
15-30 Second Duration
7 (plus or minus 2) item capacity
What is the Duration and the Capacity of the Sensory Memory?
1-2 Second Duration
Unlimited Capacity
What is the Duration and Capacity of the Long-Term Memory?
Unlimited Duration if Maintained over time
Unlimited Capacity
What is Encoding?
Getting things into your memory, the transfer between Sensory and Short-Term Memory
What is Maintenance?
Keeping the memory ‘alive’ over time, frequently doing the skill to ensure you remember it.
What is Retrieval?
Finding skills within our memory from past experience.
What is Selective Attention?
When we rule out irrelevant information when transferring information between Sensory Memory and the Short Term Memory.
What is Information Overload?
When we receive more than 9 items in our short-term memory and it exceeds capacity.
What is Decoding?
Comparing information in the short-term memory to those in the long-term memory, the comparison of information with previous experience.
What are Executive Motor Programmes?
The Memory of movement stored in the long-term Memory, refined skills are reserved.
What is Schema?
The Traces of Skills held in the long-term memory, refined skills are reserved.
Who came up with the Multi-Store Model?
Atkinson and Shiffrin
Who came up with the Levels of Processing Model?
Craik and Lockhart
What is Shallow Memory?
Memory that requires frequent structural form and maintenance rehearsal. It is caused by Structural Information, which explores what Information looks like.
What is Deep Memory?
Memory that requires elaborate levels of rehearsal. It is caused by Semantic Information- which explores what information means.
What type of information goes into the Short-Term Memory?
Phonetic Information
