Multi store memory

• Whats is the capacity of the sensory register?

  10 items
• Information enters our sensory register through our five senses
• How is information stored in short term memory?

  By sound so we can rehearse the information
• Short term memory holds between 5 and 9 items at a time
• Information is held in the sensory register for 2 seconds
• Information lasts between 15 and 30 seconds in the short term memory store
• There is no limit to the amount of information that can be stored in Long term memory
• Information in the long term memory store can last forever.
• Retrieval means finding information and bringing it out of storage
• The three stages of encoding are sensory register, short term memory (STM), and long term memory (LTM)