Memory

MEMORY PROCESSES

What are the 3 processes involved in memory?

1. Acquistions

2. Rentention

3. Recall

THE ENCODING PROCESS

• input stage -----> gather information = learning stage    

3 ways of encoding information

1. Visual representation e.g Croatia see below

2. Acoustic representaion - e.g saying out lyrics to a song or reciting out notes

3. Semantic representation -  represents information words and subjects in terms of their meaning

THE STORAGE PROCESS

THE RETRIEVAL PROCESS

Easiest - Recognition

Fairly easy - Recall

Hardest - Reproduction 

What is the Mulit-Store explanation of memory processes?

Flow of information in memory

• Memory is similar to a video recorder.
• 3 things we do:

1. Encoding

2. Storage

3. Retrieveal 

• 1 explanation of memory has more than 1 store = Multi-store explanation

1. Info arrives at 5 of our senses called the sensory store for a short period of time if we don't do anything with the info it…