Section 2: Storage

The crux of memory is our ability to store information, without this vital step, memory would be worthless.

Storage: the retention of encoded information.

Storage

Sensory Memory

Short Termor

Working Memory

Long TermMemory

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Sensory Memory is another of those simple definitions of psychology.

It is the recording of the sensory information in the memory system. (sight, feel etc.)

We have an ability to photographically remember a fleeting second of information and then its gone…if not important enough to capture.

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Stores a few items briefly, such as a telephone number, then is either remembered or forgotten.

Short term memory is limited by duration and capacity.

Look at the letter set of consonants.

After seeing the letter set, turn around and begin to count backwards from 100 by 3’s.

When asked, please recall the letter set. You will be asked twice.

CHJ

HQM

LPX

TKF

TSZ

PQG

Short term memory is characterized by the magic ‘7’s’ phenomena.

We can typically store + or – 7 items of information.

Random numbers, like telephone numbers are easier than random letters.

Imagine Life without Short Term memory.

Every moment would be new to you even though you just experienced it.

Cases of short term memory loss are rare compared to long term memory loss.

Storage

Sensory Memory

Short Termor

Working Memory

Long TermMemory

The last stage of storage is the loooooooooooong term memory stage.

It is simply the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse for your memories.

1. How many steps are there to the storage process?

2. What is the name of the lightning fast memory that is first in the process?

3. What is another name for short-term memory?

4. How many items can we usually store in our working/short term memory?

5. What type of memory loss does Clive Wearing suffer from?

6. Is Clive faking?

Adult humans can store approx 1 Billion bits of information into long term memory.

We have the capacity for 1,000 to 1,000,000 times that amount!!!!!!!!!!

All of the computer memory in every computer in the world still doesn’t equal one brain.

Count off by 5’s

Come up with a comical skit with your best Clive impersonation.

Place Clive in a 1 or 2 min skit where something embarrassing happens because of his memory loss.

No Mr. and Mrs. Clive items in the skits…….

The region of the brain that helps store explicit memories or those that you consciously try to learn is the hippocampus.

Think of this region as the brain’s librarian, directing memories to differing regions of the brain.