Module 23, Ch. 9 Encoding and Storage

The set of mental operations that people perform on sensory information to process that information into a form that is usable in the brain’s storage system.

• Encoding

• memory

• retrieval

• storage

An active system that receives information from the senses, puts that information into a usable form, organizes it as it stores it away, and then retrieves the information from storage.

• Encoding

• memory

• retrieval

• storage

Getting information that is in storage into a form that can be used.

• memory

• retrieval

• storage

• encoding

Holding onto information for some period of time.

• memory

• retrieval

• storage

• encoding

The very first stage of memory; the point at which information enters the nervous system through the sensory system.

• information processing model

• short term memory

• Sensory memory

• echoic memory

Model of memory put forth by Atkinson & Shiffrin that assumes the processing of information for memory storage is similar to the way a computer processes memory in a series of three stages.

• information processing model

• short term memory

• sensory memory

• echoic memory

The memory system in which information is held for brief periods of time while being used.

• echoic memory

• sensory memory

• Short term memory

• information processing model

The brief memory of something a person has just heard.

• short term memory

• sensory memory

• echoic memory

• information processing memory

The ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input.

• iconic memory

• parallel distributed processing

• Selective attention

• levels-of-processing model

Visual sensory memory, lasting only a fraction of a second.

• iconic memory

• selective attention

• levels-of-processing model

• parallel distributed processing