psychology gcse ocr memory

• information processing stages are input,encoding,storage, retrieval and output
• input is the first stage where information enters our brain through sensory receptors
• encoding is the second stage when information is changed into a format we can understand
• storage is the third stage where information is held temporarily or permanently
• retrival is the fourth stage where you search for stored information
• output is the final stage where information is used
• hippocampus is responsible for creating new memories before entering long term storage and aslo creates semantic memories of facts and autobiographical memories
• cerrebellum is responsible for learning sequences of movement and our motor control.It is also important for procedural and semantic memory.
• frontal lobe is responsible for organisation,planning and judgement
• anterograde amnesia is the inability to form new memories due to damage to the hippocampus
• retrograde amnesia is the inability to recall past events due to damage in the frontal lobe
• procedural memory is our motor skills and skills that we have learned through experience, such as riding a bike
• multi store model of memory is a theory that seperates memory into three different stores sensory,short term and long term store
• decay is the fading ig memory that is not being paid attention and is being replaced by new information
• short term memory store has a limited capacity of information however information must be maintenence rehearsed otherwise it will be displaced or decayed
• what happens when information is encoded


  information is changed into a format we can understand
• long term memory store can hold unlimited capacity and duration and is visual and auditory
• one critism of the multi store model of memory is that is its too simple as research had indicated that its more complex and can deal with multiple sensory information in different sections
• critism 1
• critism 2
• displacement is information that is already in the STM and is being pushed out by new information one the store becomes full
• retrieval failure is the inability to recall information because the cue needed to trigger the memory is not present
• cues are things that trigger your memory
• context cues are enviromental cues
• state cues and internal cues such as emotions