Short-term And Working Memory

Question 1

The modal model (structural features)

Answer 1

• Sensory store: holds incoming sensory information for a very short time (unattended information is lost)
• short-term store: holds information temporarily (represented acoustically) and unrehearsed information is lost
• long-term store: stores information semantically (based on meaning) for long periods, some information may be lost over time

Question 2

The modal model (control processes)

Answer 2

• Rehearsal: repetition of information that helps transfer information from STS to LTS (not effective)
• coding: associating to-be-remembered information with already known information (much more effective)
• retrieval strategies: techniques to improve recall (organizing information meaningfully)