Memory and forgetting

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What this unit covers

• Memory, information processing:: The processes involved in memory include encoding, storage, and retrieval of information.
• Memory, information processing:: Key characteristics of a memory store are: input (the information that is processed), capacity (the maximum information it can hold), duration (how long information can be retained), and access (the ability to retrieve information).
• C raik and Lockhart’s levels of processing (LoP) model of memory, including input, capacity,: Understand Craik and Lockhart’s levels of processing (LoP) model of memory, which includes aspects such as input, capacity, duration, and access, noting that storage results from processing.
• C raik and Lockhart’s levels of processing (LoP) model of memory, including input, capacity,: Identify the different types of processing in Craik and Lockhart’s levels of processing model: structural processing (focusing on visual features), phonemic processing (focusing on auditory features), and semantic processing (focusing on meaning).
• Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multistore model (MSM) of memory.: The multistore model of memory proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin.
• Atkinson and Shiffrin’s multistore model (MSM) of memory.: Different types of memory stores, including their input, capacity, duration, and retrieval: sensory register (SR) with the role of attention, short-term memory (STM), long-term memory (LTM), and the serial position effect which includes the primacy effect (better recall of initial information) and the recency effect (better recall of recent information).
• The psychodynamic theory of forgetting, including the role of motivation.: Understanding the psychodynamic perspective on forgetting, emphasizing the influence of motivation.
• The psychodynamic theory of forgetting, including the role of motivation.: Understanding the components of personality structure: the id, which is driven by desires; the ego, which mediates between the id and the super-ego; and the super-ego, which is guided by moral and societal norms. Teaching about the id should be age-appropriate and culturally sensitive, avoiding references to sexual or violent impulses.
• Localisation of function in the brain:: Certain areas of the brain are linked to particular functions.
• Localisation of function in the brain:: The limbic system is a collection of brain structures that play a role in emotions, memory, and learning.