Memory
- Created by: henryskrobot
- Created on: 09-05-16 11:08
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- Memory
- Parts of memory
- Encoding: the way information is changed so it can be stored
- Visual (picture)
- Acoustic (sound)
- Semantic (meaning)
- Duration: how long a memory lasts for before it decays away
- Encoding: the way information is changed so it can be stored
- Memory Stores
- Sensory Register
- Duration: 1/4 - 1/2 second
- Capacity: all sensory info (very large)
- Encoding: sense specific (different store for each sense)
- Short Term
- Duration: 0-18 seconds
- Capacity: 7+- 2
- Encoding: mainly acoustic
- Long Term
- Capacity: potentially unlimited
- Duration: up to a lifetime
- Sensory Register
- Parts of memory
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