PSYCHOLOGY - UNIT 1 - Flashcards in A Level and IB Psychology

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Models of memory - ATKINSON & SHIFFRIN

Proposed a structural model consisting of a series of stages: sensory,short-term and long-term memory. Information was thought to pass through these stages in a fixed sequence. At each stage of process, constraints in terms of cap. dur. enc.

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Models of memory - SENSORY MEMORY

A SET OF LIMITED CAPACITY, MODALITY-SPECIFIC STORES THAT HOLD INFORMATION FOR A VERY BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME

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Models of memory - STM

TEMPORARY STORE WHERE SMALL AMOUNTS OF INFORMATION CAN BE KEPT FOR BRIEF PERIODS. FRAGILE STORE AND INFORMATION CAN EASILY BE LOST

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Models of memory - LTM

PERMANENT STORE WHERE LIMITLESS AMOUNTS OF INFORMATION CAN BE STORED FOR A LONG PERIODS OF TIME

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Models of memory - CAPACITY

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION THAT CAN BE HELD IN MEMORY AT ANY ONE TIME

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Models of memory - DURATION

LENGTH OF TIME THAT MEMORIES CAN BE HELD

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Models of memory - ENCODING

WAY IN WHICH INFORMATION IS REPRESENTED IN THE MEMORY STORE (E.G BY SOUND, MEANING OR IMAGE)

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Models of memory - STRENGTHS OF MSM

was important and influential when it was first proposed

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Models of memory - WEAKNESSES OF MSM

too simplistic and inflexible to explain fully the complexities of human 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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