MT2.6

Question 1

Acquisition

Answer 1

encoding (processed)

• Automatic Processing
• Effortful Processing

Question 2

Automatic processing

Answer 2

(ex. knowing how to get home, knowing where you parked your car)

Question 3

Effortful processing

Answer 3

• Rehearsal (practice/ study)
• Spacing effect (Space out learning, 10 min a day)
• Serial position effect (the things we remember are at the beginning and end not so much the middle, list of words)

Question 4

What is the importance of meaningfulness?

Answer 4

Retention(storage)

-make what you are learning familiar to something you have heared and seen many times

Question 5

How does imagery affect memory?

Answer 5

Retention(storage)

when we think of the concept we tend to associate it with a image so we can recall it easier

Question 6

Mnemonics -

Answer 6

Mental Memory Aids (Retrieval)

• Chunking-divide (something) into chunks
• Rhymes
• Acronyms- ex.”PEMDAS”
• Acrostics-ex. Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

Question 7

What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin three-stage processing model?

Answer 7

• Sensory Memory(iconic/echoic)
• Short-term memory
• Long-term memory(essentially unlimited)

Question 8

What is sensory memory

Answer 8

• iconic: Visual sense (eye)

- echoic: sound sense (sound)

Question 9

What is the capacity (time and amount) of short-term memory, of long-term memory?

Answer 9

• Short Term- (last only seconds/ remember 7 items)

- Long Term- (essentially unlimited/ retrieval )