Multi-store model of memory Flashcards
1
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Sensory Register
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Sperling (1960): Stores information in unencoded form briefly until it is processed, like sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell.
2
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Coding
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How our five senses get sent to stores, sight is coded and then sent to the iconic store for example.
3
Q
Capacity
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How much information we can retain at one point.
4
Q
Duration
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How long we can retain information in our memory.
5
Q
Short-Term memory
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Memories we only keep for a short time, doing nothing with them makes them fade within a minute.
6
Q
Long-term memory
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Holds memories with an unlimited capacity, could be events, skills, knowledge.
7
Q
Important People in the Multi-store model
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Sperling, Baddeley, Miller, Perterson & Perterson, Bahrik.
