3-stage Model Of Memory

1) sensory memory (registers)

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2) short-term (working) memory

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3) long-term memory

set of sensory registers, one for each of our senses, serve as holding places for incoming sensory info. untill it can be attended to, interprted, and encoded into short-term memory

visual sensory register that holds an exact copy of the incoming visual input but only for a brief period of time, less then one second

experimental procedure in which two meaningless visual patterns that produce a meaningful pattern if integrated are presented sequentially with the time delay b/w their presentations varied

an experimental procedure in which, following the brief presentation of a matrix of unrelated consonants, the participant has to attempt to recall the letters in the matrix

An experimental procedure in which following the brief presentation of of a matrix of unrelated consonants, the participant is given an auditory cue about which row of the matrix to recall

the memory stage with a small capacity (7+-2 chunks) and breif duration (<30 sec) that we are conciously aware of and in which we do our problem solving, reasoning, and decision making

-Explicit Memory: (declaritive memory) memory that requires consious recall

  --Episodic Memory: personal experiences

  --Semantic Memory: factual knowledge

-Implicit Memory: (non-decaritive memory) memory that does not require consious recall

  --Classical Conditioning: conditional responses automatically elicited by conditioned stimuli

  --Procedural Memory: motor and cognitive skills involving procedures

  --Priming: influence of an earlier presented stimulus on the response to a later

long-term memory for factual knowledge and personal experiences. Requires a consious effort to remember and entails making declarations about the info. remembered

  --sematic memory: factual knowledge

  --episodic memory: personal experiences

long-term memory for procedural tasks, classical conditioning, and primary effects. Does not require consious awareness or the need to make declarations about info. remembered

  --procedural memory: implicit memory for cognitive and motor tasks that have a physical procedural aspect to them

  --priming: implicit influence of an earlier presented stimulus on the response to a later stimulus. independent of concious memory for the earlier stimulus