Memory- key terms
- Created by: jgoldsmith
- Created on: 01-05-14 15:52
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- Memory key terms
- Sensory memory(SM)
- The sensory memory takes information from one of the sense organs and holds it in the same form
- Capacity: Very large
- Duration: Very brief
- Short-term memory (STM)
- This is your memory for immediate events.
- It lasts for a very short time
- Duration and Capacity: Limited
- Long-term memory (LTM)
- This is your memory for events in the past
- Duration and Capacity: Unlimited
- Encoding
- this means changing the information presented into a different form.
- Capacity
- This is a measure of how much can be held in memory
- Duration
- this is a measure of how long a memory last before it is no longer available
- Sensory memory(SM)
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