Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Psychology - Memory Stores
- Key concepts
- Capacity
- How much information the store holds.
- Duration
- The length of time the store fold information.
- Encoding
- The way the information is put into the store.
- Types
- Sensory Memory
- A set of limited capacity,
modality specific stores
that hold information for a
brief period of time.
- Iconic (sight)
- Echoic (hearing)
- Olfactory (smell)
- Haptic (touch)
- Short Term Memory (STM)
- A temporary store where small amounts
of information can be kept for short
amounts of time.
- Long Term Memory (LTM)
- A permanent store where limitless
amounts of information can be stored
for long periods of time.