Chapter 6 Memory Memory Definition an active system

Chapter 6 Memory

Memory • Definition- an active system that receives information from the senses, organizes and alters it as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage • 3 Processes of Memory – Encoding – Storage – Retrieval

Models of Memory • Levels of Processing Model • Parallel Distributed Processing Model • Information Processing Model

Information Processing Model • • Sensory Memory Iconic Sensory Memory Capacity of Iconic Memory Duration of Iconic Memory Eidetic Imagery Function of Iconic Memory Echoic Sensory Memory

Short Term Memory • • • Selective Attention Three Interrelated Systems Capacity Chunking Maintenance Rehearsal

Long Term Memory • • Capacity Duration Elaborative Rehearsal Types of Long Term Memory – Procedural – Declarative • Sematic • Episodic

Long Term Memory • Organization – Semantic Network Model • Retrieval – Retrieval Cues – Encoding Specificity – Recall – Recognition • Recognition • Automatic Encoding

Reconstructive Nature • Constructive Process of Memories • Memory Retrieval Problems

Forgetting • • • Ebbinghaus and the forgetting curve Distributed practice Encoding Failure Memory Trace Delay Theory Interference Theory

Physical Aspects of memory • Neural activity • Hippocampus • Amnesia – Retrograde amnesia – Anterograde amnesia – Infantile Amnesia • Alzheimers