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A 3 page paper which looks at the processes by which information is stored in memory, and some of the techniques which can be used to improve recall. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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information to be stored in the memory, it must be encoded. This allows the information to be translated from the original sensory impressions into a form which the brain understands.
The encoded data is then stored and can later be retrieved. There are different levels of memory processing, which relate to the difference between
remembering something on a superficial level, and a deeper one. Bernstein and Nash point out, for instance, that if a student looks up the definition of a new word, and
then uses it in a sentence, the latter activity is more likely to aid retention because it uses a deeper level of processing. Theories of information processing deal with the
way that information goes from sensory memory to short-term to long-term memory. The initial sensory stimulus remains in the memory for only a very
short period of time (Bernstein and Nash state that it is less than a second). If the sensory information is suitably encoded, it then goes into the short-term memory store,
but again this is of brief duration (about 20 seconds). Further processing has to take place for the information to be permanently stored in long-term memory. Sensory memory is selective:
since we are receiving a lot of sensory stimuli all the time, we filter out the ones which are not needed (ignoring background noises to concentrate on a single conversation,
for example). Short-term memory can be improved by using the chunking method. We are better at remembering chunks of information than single items, so if a long list of letters
is presented as chunks of a few letters each, this reduces the number of units that the short-term memory has to deal with and so recall will be improved. Using
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