AP Pyshxology Memory

Atkinsons and Sriffnins “Three- Stage Processing Model”

Memories are stored in a three step processs of sensory memory, short term and long term memory

Sensory Memory

holds sensory ½ sec visual, 2-4 sec audiotry, if information is not transferred it will be lost.

Short Term Memory

holds perception for analysis up to 30 sec without rehearsal, 5-9 units, if information not transferred it will be lost. The ability ot hold and maniluate information over a breif perfiod of time, forgetting can occur rapidly, especially if dsitracted.

Longterm memory

permanent storage contains relatively permanent, unlimited

Multistore Memory

Explanation of how memory process work, you hear, see and feel many things but only a small # of it Is remembered (Arltinson and Stirffin)

Ionic Memory

Our fleeting photographic memory

Echoic Memory

Our fleeting memory for audiotry sensations

Long term example

facts you learned a few minutes ago

Long term example

personal memories that are a decade old

Long term example

skills learned in practice

Episodic Memory

Type of Long term memory, memories of specific events stored in sequence

Semantic Memory

Type of long term memory, General knowledge of the world, stored as facts, meanings or in category

Procedural Memory

Type of long term memory, Memories of skill and how to perform them

Explicit Memory (LTM)

Conscious memories of facts or events we actively try to remmeber

Implicit Memory

Memories that are unintentional and are brought to consciousness inadventenlty

How much memory does the average adult hold?

A Billion

Hippocampus

What is relevant to STM especially like a holding cell until memories can be transferred into LTM- especially explcit

Cerrebellum

What is responsible for implciit memory storage

Amygdala

What stores many memories tied to emotions

Memory

The persistence of learning overtime through the storage and retrieval of information,

Encoding

The proceeding of information into the memory system

Retrieval

The process of getting information out of memory storage