sensory memory
lasts for less than a second and almost everything unimportant is forgotten
short-term memory
Important sensory information is “coded” into this. 5-7 items/chunks and lasts around 30 seconds
long-term memory
rehearsed STM is encoded into this. lasts forever with an unlimited capacity
anterograde amnesia
can’t form new memories
retrograde amnesia
can’t remember old memories
Multi-Store Model(Atkinson and Shiffrin 1968)
-Memory has multiple, separate and sequential stores: Sensory, STM, LTM
Working Memory Model(Baddeley and Hitch 1974)
Central executive, phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad