Memory
- Created by: Molly-Ann
- Created on: 11-12-14 11:15
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- Memory
- Processes of memory
- Retrieval
- Defintion: Accessing the information from storage.
- Encoding
- Visual
- Visual encoding is when we use an image to retrieve information from our memory
- Semantic
- Semantic encoding is when you put meaning into content and retrieve it at a later stage.
- Acoustic
- Acoustic is the way in which information is retrieved using sound.
- Definition
- Information is changed so that it can be stored in a memory.
- Visual
- Retrieval
- STM/LTM
- Long Term Memory
- Encoding: Acoustically, visually or semantically.
- Capacity: potentially unlimited.
- Duration: Potentially unlimited
- Short Term Memory
- Duration: 15-30 seconds
- Capacity: George Miller (1956) claimed that we can hold anything between five and nine objects in our STM. This is knows as 7+/- 2 items.
- Long Term Memory
- Processes of memory
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