Memory

Memory

A. Encoding

1. rehearsal: conscience repetition over time
2. deep processing: towards deeper meaning
3. elaboration: taking an idea and extending it
4. constructing images: visual elaboration
5. organization: make meaningful connections (concept maps)

B. Storage

1. sensory: seconds or less
2. short term: 30 seconds
3.long term: A. declarative (explicit) - a) Episodic Memory b) Semantic Memory
  B . Procedural (implicit)

C. Retrieval

1. Cue Dependent Forgetting- the cue we established for one isn't working.

2. Interference Theory- at one time you knew how to retrieve information, but you have learned so much new information that it is interfering with your old knowledge.

3. Decay Theory- when neuro pathways start to fade. Knowledge you no longer use (though lack of use).