Information processing theory

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Who proposed the information process theory?
Dudai 2011
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What is the information processing theory?
Information is stored and retrieved piece by piece and moves amongst three memory stores during encoding, storage and retrieval
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Outline the process
Sensory memory to working memory to long term memory
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What are the purposes for each stage
hold sensory information, temporarily hold information and then relatively permanent storage of information
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What helps encoding working memory into long term memory?
organising information
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How can memory be encoded?
phonological (sound), visual (how info looks) and semantic (meaning of info)
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What are three types of effortful encoding?
meaning, elaboration and mnemonic
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What is meaning encoding?
we remember better when we understand the information
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What is elaborating encoding?
More elaboration and personally relevant it is the better we remember
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What is mnemonic encoding?
These are techniques used to increase meaningfulness
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What are the three reasons for forgetting?
encoding failure, storage failure and retrieval failure
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What does encoding failure mean?
You never learnt it in the first place
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What does storage failure mean?
It is down to a biological problem
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What does retrieval failure mean?
You learnt it and stored it but you cannot get it out of your brain
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