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AP PSYCH 5.3 Storing

Types of Processing

Serial Processing

  • One process occurring at a time
  • Processes occur one after the other
  • Like the information-processing/3-stage model

Parallel Processing

  • Multiple tracks of processing occurring at the same time
  • Like walking and talking, remembering the time after not thinking about it for a while
    • You may not be consciously processing, but it still is happening
  • Not the same as multitasking

Effortful Processing

  • Explicit/Declarative memories
  • Experiences and facts

Automatic Processing

  • Implicit/Non-declarative memories encoding unconsciously
  • Often relate to time, space, frequency, etc.
  • When you retrieve this information, you aren’t explicitly thinking about the topic, it just ‘comes to you’ when you need it
  • Includes procedural memory and relates to classical conditioning