Memory

Question 1

What is memory?

Answer 1

Memory is the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.

Question 2

How does information move from the sensory register to the short term memory?

Answer 2

Attention

Question 3

How does information move from the STM to the LTM?

Answer 3

Maintenance rehearsal

Question 4

How does information move from the LTM to the STM?

Answer 4

Retrieval

Question 5

Who created the multi-store model of memory?

Answer 5

Atkinson and Shiffrin

Question 6

Describe all the different ways information can travel through the stores in the MSM (3)

Answer 6

1. Sensory register -> STM : attention
2. STM -> LTM : maintenance rehearsal
3. LTM -> STM : retrieval

Question 7

How does information enter the sensory register?

Answer 7

Information from the environment enters the sensory register via our senses

Question 8

What is attention?

Answer 8

This is the process by which information is moved from the sensory register to the STM by focusing on a stimulus.

Question 9

What is maintenance rehearsal?

Answer 9

This is repeating information without thinking about its meaning to:
a) keep information in the STM for a while
b) transfer information to the LTM

Question 10

What is retrieval?

Answer 10

The process of getting information out of storage to use

Question 11

What is decay?

Answer 11

Losing information because you haven’t used it enough

Question 12

What is displacement?

Answer 12

Losing information because there is already too much in that memory store.

Question 13

How does the sensory register encode information?

Answer 13

There are 5 mini sub-stores that process different types of sensory information
1. Iconic store - information from your eyes is stored as imagines
2. Echo if store - information from your ears is stored as sounds
3. Haptic store - information from your skin is stored as feelings
4. Gustatory store - information from the tongue is stored as taste
5. Olfactory store - information from the nose is stored as smells