Memory

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Sensory register
Information you get from your senses is registered
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Short term memory
Duration: up to 18 seconds, capacity: 7+/-2 items. Encoding is acoustic
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Long term memory
Duration and capacity is unlimited. Encoding usually semantic
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Episodic LTM
Memory stored about events we have experienced
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Semantic LTM
Memory stored about the world like the meaning of words and general knowledge
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Procedural LTM
Memory of how to do things (unconscious/automatic)
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Central executive
Acts as a filter, determining which info is attended to. Controls slave systems
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Phonological loop
Holds auditory info in a speech based form
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Visio-spatial sketchpad
Holds visual and spacial info
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Episodic buffer
Acts as a backup store for info
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Proactive interference
Where old learning prevents recollection of new memories
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Retroactive interference
Where new memories replace old ones
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Retrieval failure
Info is available in long term memory but is not recalled due to lack of appropriate cues
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Duration: up to 18 seconds, capacity: 7+/-2 items. Encoding is acoustic

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Short term memory

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Duration and capacity is unlimited. Encoding usually semantic

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Card 4

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Memory stored about events we have experienced

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Card 5

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Memory stored about the world like the meaning of words and general knowledge

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