Memory

When trying to memorise something, we can use the following methods:

• Picturing - attaching a name to an item
• Linking things into groups, such as creating a story
• Thinking back - rehearsal 
• Relate an item to somebody we know e.g Robyn has a red top
• Mental image, photographic memory

To remember something we must follow these steps:

• Store it in our sensory memory
• Rehearse it so it enters our short term memory or if we rehearse further, our Long term memory 
• Translate, encode into 'brain language'
• Then to recall you must decode

MILLER 1956

• Miller measured the capacity of the short term memory.
• Miller discovered the short term memory can hold 7 units of information. Millers 7-+2.

CRAIK AND LOCKHART 1972

• Craik and Lockhart studied the processes involved in memory.
• They discovered Miller's explanation was to simple and how we memorise things affects where in our memory they go.