memory processes

Input

Process of receiving info from the environment form our 5 senses

Processing

Analysis of the info we received

Output

Consequence of the analysis of the input

Retrieval

Remebering the information stored

What happens when we need to store new information

We must transform the info into a form capable of being entered into the memory system

Different types of encoding

Visual(picture)

Acoustic(sound)

Semantic(meaning

Duration

How long we can keep the information in our memory

Capacity

How much we can hold in our memory

Describe short term memory

-hold between 5-9 items

-15-30 seconds

Describe long term memory

-capacity is unlimited

-different types of memory can be stored in LTM