front 1 STM | back 1 Short Term Memory |
front 2 LTM | back 2 Long term memory |
front 3 Cognitive approach to Psychology | back 3 The believe that minds are similar to computers and the information processing approach. |
front 4 Multi Store Model | back 4 Atkinson and Shiffrin (1971) The idea that we have a sensory buffer, a short term memory and a long term memory. Argues that there is a limit in terms of capacity and duration and that the modality is acoustic (sounds.) |
front 5 Working Memory Model | back 5 Baddeley and Hitch (1974) Response to the Multi Store Model. Argues that STM is more diverse and can handle visual data. The model proposes that there is: central executive/ phonological loop/ visual spatial scratch pad/ episodic buffer. |
front 6 HM | back 6 Brain damaged patient. Clinical data provides support for separate memory systems. |
front 7 CW | back 7 Brain damaged patient. Clinical data provides support for separate memory systems. |
front 8 Duration | back 8 Models of STM look at how long information can be held for. |
front 9 Capacity | back 9 Models look at how much information can be held in STM |
front 10 Modality | back 10 Models of STM look at which mode information is held in ie visual or acoustic. |
front 11 Hypothetical construct | back 11 Often used in theories of the brain - an activity of the brain is given a name eg the ego but this does not actually exist in biological terms in the brain. |
front 12 Encoding | back 12 The stage of memory where information is received from the outside world and held in storage systems. |
front 13 storage | back 13 holding information in memory banks |
front 14 retrieval | back 14 getting information back out from memory storage systems |
front 15 sensory input | back 15 information from the world is attended to from one of the five senses |
front 16 sensory memory | back 16 the initial part of the memory process where information is attended to and actively perceived. |
front 17 rehearsal | back 17 repetition of material to stop it from being lost, usually acoustic |
front 18 Miller 1956 | back 18 In his paper Miller magical number 7 plus or minus 2, showed that STM has 5-9 slots for information |
front 19 chunking | back 19 technique to encode more information through extending the meaning (semanticity) of material |
front 20 Brown Peterson 1959 | back 20 Did a study showing subjects trigrams - eg TRC - then got subjects to complete a distractor item - counting back in threes. The longer the counting the worse the recall. Indicates that there is a time limit to STM after which information is lost. |
front 21 clinical data | back 21 Real life data from patients who are usually affected in some area. |
front 22 central executive | back 22 Part of working memory which controls and directs the other subsystems. |
front 23 Articulatory Loop | back 23 An acoustic system within the working memory model. Holds the information we are about to say. |
front 24 Visual spatial scratch pad | back 24 part of working memory which deals with visual information. As though it gets written down. |
front 25 episodic buffer | back 25 part of working memory system which is where acoustic and visual information come together and are held modality free. |