Psychology Revision - Memory

A brief revision on the Memory topic of Psychology AS.

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  • Created by: SBDL
  • Created on: 11-09-12 18:23
Capacity
the amount of information that can be held in memory at any one time
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Duration
the length of time that memories can be held for
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Encoding
the way which information is presented in the memory
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Sensory Memory
a set of limited capacity modality-specific stores that hold information for a very brief period of time
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Iconic Storage
the store associated with visual information eg a flash from a camera - you see that image for a brief moment
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Echoic Storage
associated with auditory information
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Multistore Memory System/Model
a model/diagram designed in 1968 by Atkinson and Shiffon
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the length of time that memories can be held for

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Duration

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the way which information is presented in the memory

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a set of limited capacity modality-specific stores that hold information for a very brief period of time

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the store associated with visual information eg a flash from a camera - you see that image for a brief moment

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