Memory

• Memory- Retaining info about past events
• Short term memory (STM)- Info we process/ recall straight away, lasts for a few seconds
• Long term memory (LTM) is the memory store that is permanent and can be accessed over a long period of time
• Clive Wearing

  • Severe amnesia from viral infection
  • Before was professional musician after still could play piano - Procedural memory
  • Couldn't remember wife or children's name - Episodic memory
  • Against MSM, multiple LTM stores
• What model does the WMM replace?

  Short term memory model
• Accessibility theory of forgetting - We forget the memory is there so we cannot access it
• What are the two reasons for forgetting?

  Retrival failure

  Interference