Chapter 7 Stages of Memory- 3/26/18 Flashcards
What are the three stages of memory?
- Sensory Memory
- Short-term Memory
- Long-term Memory
What’s the 1st of memory?
Sensory memory
Sensory consists of the ______, initial recording of information.
Immediate
What is memory trace?
Our impression made on our senses by the image
How long do memory traces last?
Fraction of a second
Where are icons held?
Sensory register- iconic memory
What are icons?
The mental pictures we form of visual stimuli
Eidetic Imagery
The ability to remember photographic memory
____% of children have eidetic imagery.
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Sensory register that holds mental traces of sound, called echoes
Echoic memory
Which are easier to remember- acoustic codes or visual codes?
Acoustic codes
- echoes last several seconds longer than icons
What stage of memory is called working memory?
Short-term memory
Tendency to recall the initial item in a series of items
Primary effect
Organization of items into familiar or manageable units
Chunking
Tendency to recall the last items in a series
Recency Effect
Occurs when new information appears in short-term memory and takes the place of what’s already there
Interference
Short-term memory is the _____ between _____ memory and ______ memory.
- Bridge
- Sensory
- Long-term
What is the 3rd stage of memory?
Long-term memory
One way of transferring information from short-term memory to long-term by using repetition
Mechanical repetition (maintenance rehearsal)
Relating new information to information that you already know
Elaborative rehearsal
Capacity of Memory
Psychologists do not know how much can be stored in a person’s long-term memory
Memories are reconstructed from the bite and pieces of our experiences: siblings remember same event differently
Memory as Reconstructive
Mental representation that we form of the world by organizing bits of information into knowledge
Schemas
