The Process and Types of Memory (Levels)

Question 1

What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin Three Stage Model of Memory

Answer 1

These are 3 different memory systems characterized by time frames.

1. Sensory memory
2. Short-term memory
3. Long-term memory

Question 2

What is Sensory Memory

Answer 2

These are external events from our senses that are held just long enough to be perceived.

1. Iconic memory
2. Echoic memory
3. Haptic memory

Question 3

What is the Iconic Memory

Answer 3

This is the memory for things you see, it lasts for less than a second

Question 4

What is Echoic Memory

Answer 4

This is the memory for things you hear, it lasts for 3-4 seconds.

Question 5

What is the Haptic Memory

Answer 5

This is the memory for your sense of touch, it lasts for about 2 seconds.

Question 6

What is Short-term Memory

Answer 6

This is what we are currently aware of or thinking about, this comes from paying attention, it only available for a short while.

Question 7

What is Long-term Memory

Answer 7

This is the memory held of a longer time period, more than a few seconds.

Question 8

What is Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart’s Level of Processing Model

Answer 8

It says that how deeply we encode information plays a role in how well and long we remember the information.

Question 9

What is Depth

Answer 9

This refers to the level of attention, focus, elaboration, and emphasis on a particular memory.

Question 10

What is Shallow Processing

Answer 10

This is encoding on a basic level, based on the structure of appearance.

1. Structural-encode physical qualities
2. Phonemic encoded sound

Question 11

What is Maintenance Rehearsal

Answer 11

This is when you keep repeating information in order to memorize it, it can increase the length of information to about 30 seconds. It prolongs information presence in STM.

Question 12

What is Deep Processing

Answer 12

This is when you encode information in a meaningful way, we create associations between new and existing memories.

Question 13

What is Semantic Encoding

Answer 13

This is when you encode the meaning of a word to a similar word with similar meaning. The encoding of meaning.

Question 14

What is Self referent encoding

Answer 14

When you encode information based on your interest. We remember what we are interested in.

Question 15

What is Chunking

Answer 15

This is when you take individual pieces of information and group them into larger pieces.