Psychology Exam 2 Memory #1

Modal Model of Memory ( Three Stage Model)

Model that shows for information is encoded, stored, and retrieved

What is Sensory Memory

The short lived memory for sensory details of event. (For example, how things felt or tasted) Duration is 0.5-3 seconds

Iconic Memory

takes less than half a second for gain visual sensory before the memory is lost

Echoic memory

Three to four seconds until memory is lost auditory sensory

Sterling Study

The sensory memory retains a large amounts of information but for a very brief duration. Measured by flashing 12 cards for 1/20 of a second to participants and see how many they can repeat back

Short Term Memory

Memory that holds a small amount of information for 15 to 30 seconds. You remember around 7+-2 things

Chunking

The process in which our brains divide large pieces of information into smaller pieces

What is the magic number

Magic number refers to how many items we can hold in our short term memory and it’s 7 + or - 2.

Peterson and Peterson Study

The longer the students took to count backwards the less accurate they were at recalling trigrams

Attention

a state of consciousness where a person can respond to stimuli or stimulus

Rehearsal

the repetition of information to help maintain and store it in memory

Encoding

The process of information into the memory system. For example, when you meet someone and they tell you their name you encode that information so you can remember

Retrieval

The act of getting information from our memory back into our conscious state. For example, recalling a

memory.