Memory

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Chapter 6

• Memory

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Memory

• Definition- an active system that receives
  information from the senses, organizes and alters
  it as it stores it away, and then retrieves the
  information from storage
• 3 Processes of Memory
• Encoding
• Storage
• Retrieval

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Models of Memory

• Levels of Processing Model
• Parallel Distributed Processing Model
• Information Processing Model

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Information Processing Model

• Sensory Memory
• Iconic Sensory Memory
• Capacity of Iconic Memory
• Duration of Iconic Memory
• Eidetic Imagery
• Function of Iconic Memory
• Echoic Sensory Memory

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Short Term Memory

• Selective Attention
• Three Interrelated Systems
• Capacity
• Chunking
• Maintenance Rehearsal

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Long Term Memory

• Capacity
• Duration
• Elaborative Rehearsal
• Types of Long Term Memory
• Procedural
• Declarative
• Sematic
• Episodic

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Long Term Memory

• Organization
• Semantic Network Model
• Retrieval
• Retrieval Cues
• Encoding Specificity
• Recall
• Recognition
• Recognition
• Automatic Encoding

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Reconstructive Nature

• Constructive Process of Memories
• Memory Retrieval Problems

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Forgetting

• Ebbinghaus and the forgetting curve
• Distributed practice
• Encoding Failure
• Memory Trace Delay Theory
• Interference Theory

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Physical Aspects of memory

• Neural activity
• Hippocampus
• Amnesia
• Retrograde amnesia
• Anterograde amnesia
• Infantile Amnesia
• Alzheimers