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 arenāt explicitly thinking about the topic, it just ācomes to youā when you need it
- Includes procedural memory and relates to classical conditioning