storage capacity • conscious awareness • retrieval/access and recovery • role of rehearsal • organisation • forgetting • Learning Activity 6.23 (p. 276) 1 Construct a table that summarises the main distinguishing features of the sensory memory, short-term working memory and LTM systems. Name of Main Type of Storage Storage Organisation of Relationship Other memory function(s) information duration capacity of stored processing to other distinctive system information features sensory stores all original (raw) very vast no none entry point no encoding memory new sensory form for all new a different information may differ information sensory that may for each to memory register for enter sensory transfers to each memory register STM or each with from the working own external memory features, environment (and e.g. storage sometimes duration directly to may act as a LTM filtering according to system for incoming sensory model) information attention is required for transfer and encoding
• storage capacity • conscious awareness • retrieval/access and recovery • role of rehearsal • organisation • forgetting Learning Activity 6.23 (p. 276) 1 Construct a table that summarises the main distinguishing features of the sensory memory, short-term working memory and LTM systems. Name of memory system Main function(s) Type of information Storage duration Storage capacity Organisation of stored information of processing Relationship to other Other distinctive features sensory memory stores all new information that may enter memory from the external environment original (raw) sensory form very may differ for each sensory register vast no none entry point for all new information to memory transfers to STM or working memory (and sometimes directly to LTM according to model) attention is required for transfer and encoding no encoding a different sensory register for each each with own features, e.g. storage duration may act as a filtering system for incoming sensory information
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