Psychology › Section H · Memory › Topic H.1
How memory functions
Everything you learn depends on memory, yet memory is not one thing. This topic breaks it into three processes and three stores, then sorts long-term memory into the kinds you can put into words and the kinds that show only in what you do.
In this topic
- Three jobs: encode, store, retrieve
- Encoding: effort, form and depth
- The Atkinson-Shiffrin model
- Short-term memory: brief and small
- Working memory: a mental workspace
- Long-term memory as a network
- Explicit and implicit memory
- Retrieval: recall, recognition, relearning
- Worked example: a code through the model
- Worked example: which memory system?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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